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The influence of climate and population structure on East Asian skeletal morphological variation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
forces. While the recent incorporation of quantitative genetic methodologies has improved understanding of selection due to climate in Africa, Europe, and the Americas; Asia remains underrepresented in recent and historic studies of body form...
The influence of body mass and body composition on bone functional adaptation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
The proposed dissertation follows a three article format. The articles are distinct, but each pertains to the same subject of research. The first article applies structural equation modeling to factors influencing bone ...
Body size and shape in insular environments and applications of the island rule in biological anthropology
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
The discovery of small-bodied hominin fossils in 2004 on the island of Flores, Indonesia, unearthed a large debate within biological anthropology. This debate has exemplified that there are questions and research areas ...