John M Mccullough
Biographic Data
| ID | 100447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M Mccullough |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccullough |
| SIGNATURE | MCCULLOUGH J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reply to Delanghe, Speeckaert, and De Buyzere: “The evolutionary adaptation of hemochromatosis associated mutations during the Neolithic”
The evolutionary adaptation of the C 282 Y mutation to culture and climate during the E uropean N eolithic
OBJECTIVES: The C282Y allele is the major cause of hemochromatosis as a result of excessive iron absorption. The mutation arose in continental Europe no earlier than 6,000 years ago, coinciding with the arrival of the Neolithic agricultural revolution. Here we hypothesize that this new Neolithic diet, which originated in the sunny warm and dry climates of the Middle East, was carried by migrating farmers into the chilly and damp environments of E…
Culling the cousins: Kingship, kinship, and competition in mid-millennial England
Kin selection, an aspect of evolutionary theory, argues that, all else equal, individuals should give preferential treatment to relatives, based on the degree of relatedness [Hamilton, W. D. (1964). The genetical evolution of social behaviour I, II. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7, 1–52.]. However, one may observe instances where competition for scarce or unique resources is stronger between family members than between unrelated individuals. Su…
Relation of community size to endogamy in a traditional soceity: Pátzcuaro, Mexico, 1903–1932
Community endogamy is often a preferred cultural practice, although in traditional populations small community size make universal endogamy difficult for lack of appropriate mates. Using civil marriage records from an early 20th century Tarascan Mexican population, the association of local community size, transferred to long values, and endogamy is tested using 2,663 marriages for 40 locations situated in two municipios (counties) forming the Sou…
Geographic distribution of consanguinity in Europe
Average consanguinity (alpha) of 20 large regional or national samples derived from Roman Catholic Dispensations or state archives shows a strong negative relationship with latitude (r = -0.738; P less than 0.001) which seems best explained by cultural-historical factors. Isolates show no such pattern and are more variable in their inbreeding levels. Two-way analysis of variance shows the sample division by population size to be significant, the …
Application of the Kolmogorov‐Smirnov test to seasonal phenomena may be inappropriate
The Kolmogorov‐Smirnov one‐sample test is sometimes used to test seasonality in births or other annually cyclic phenomena. However, it is shown that the maximum deviation from expected (D) may differ by a factor of almost two if the cycle is initiated in different months. Thus, different results are possible from the same data. Unless there is a logical initiation point in a cycle, it is probably better to use other nonparametric statistical test…
Estimation of minimal selection pressure in a recessive trait from migration across climatic clines
Age‐specific variation in the secular trend for stature: A comparison of samples from industrialized and nonindustrialized regions
Age‐specific secular trend patterns for children in industrialized world regions have a regular pattern, beginning low at age 6 and increasing to a maximum at age 10 to 14, then declining. While magnitude differs, the patterns are ordinarily parallel, especially in the female samples. However, age‐specific secular trend values for children from developing regions, or from areas of industrialized countries not benefitting substantially from develo…
Secular trend for stature in adult male Yucatec Maya to 1968
Statures for 64 adult male Yucatec Maya (18+ years old, sons of campesinos) were measured in 1968 and compared with mean statures presented in results for previous studies. There were no significant changes in mean stature since 1895. If the sample is divided into 5‐year age groups, no secular trend is evident. Using osteological information from as early as the Late Preclassic, stature of adult Maya males has decreased 119 mm in a little more th…
Phenylketonuria: A balanced polymorphism in Europe
New Evidence for a Late Introduction of Malaria into the New World [and Comments and Reply]
New evidence is offered to strengthen the case for a post-Conquest introduction of malaria into the New World. An investigation of human physiological factors influencing host selection by malaria vectors revealed a strong preference by Anopheles gambiae for human hosts with blood-group O. The unique, overwhelming group-O frequency present among indigenous American populations is seen as a result of mother-child ABO incompatibility effects operat…
Human Ecology, Heat Adaptation, and Belief Systems: The Hot-Cold Syndrome of Yucatan
The cultural nature of the "hot-cold" syndrome has been emphasized in previous studies. I suggest that the syndrome is also an important aspect of biocultural adaptation among the Maya of Yucatan, especially in prevention of heatstroke and heat cramps, because it includes physiologically realistic rules for behavior during work in a hot climate
Hydrogen cyanide and phenylthiocarbamide sensitivity, mid‐phalangeal hair and color blindness in Yucatán, Mexico
Approximately 1450 persons, 800 of them unrelated, of both sexes from age eigth upward from the town of Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico, formed an American Indian (Maya) sample with apparently little Caucasian admixture for four genetic tests: ability to taste PTC and smell HCN, presence of mid‐phalangeal hair, and color blindness. A modified PTC sorting test indicated a nontaster allele ( t ) frequency of 0.29 in Ticul, a relatively high result for Ameri…
Secular trend for stature in adult male Yucatec Maya to 1968
Statures for 64 adult male Yucatec Maya (18+ years old, sons of campesinos) were measured in 1968 and compared with mean statures presented in results for previous studies. There were no significant changes in mean stature since 1895. If the sample is divided into 5‐year age groups, no secular trend is evident. Using osteological information from as early as the Late Preclassic, stature of adult Maya males has decreased 119 mm in a little more th…
Human Ecology, Heat Adaptation, and Belief Systems: The Hot-Cold Syndrome of Yucatan
The cultural nature of the "hot-cold" syndrome has been emphasized in previous studies. I suggest that the syndrome is also an important aspect of biocultural adaptation among the Maya of Yucatan, especially in prevention of heatstroke and heat cramps, because it includes physiologically realistic rules for behavior during work in a hot climate
New Evidence for a Late Introduction of Malaria into the New World [and Comments and Reply]
New evidence is offered to strengthen the case for a post-Conquest introduction of malaria into the New World. An investigation of human physiological factors influencing host selection by malaria vectors revealed a strong preference by Anopheles gambiae for human hosts with blood-group O. The unique, overwhelming group-O frequency present among indigenous American populations is seen as a result of mother-child ABO incompatibility effects operat…
The evolutionary adaptation of the C 282 Y mutation to culture and climate during the E uropean N eolithic
OBJECTIVES: The C282Y allele is the major cause of hemochromatosis as a result of excessive iron absorption. The mutation arose in continental Europe no earlier than 6,000 years ago, coinciding with the arrival of the Neolithic agricultural revolution. Here we hypothesize that this new Neolithic diet, which originated in the sunny warm and dry climates of the Middle East, was carried by migrating farmers into the chilly and damp environments of E…
Age‐specific variation in the secular trend for stature: A comparison of samples from industrialized and nonindustrialized regions
Age‐specific secular trend patterns for children in industrialized world regions have a regular pattern, beginning low at age 6 and increasing to a maximum at age 10 to 14, then declining. While magnitude differs, the patterns are ordinarily parallel, especially in the female samples. However, age‐specific secular trend values for children from developing regions, or from areas of industrialized countries not benefitting substantially from develo…
Hydrogen cyanide and phenylthiocarbamide sensitivity, mid‐phalangeal hair and color blindness in Yucatán, Mexico
Approximately 1450 persons, 800 of them unrelated, of both sexes from age eigth upward from the town of Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico, formed an American Indian (Maya) sample with apparently little Caucasian admixture for four genetic tests: ability to taste PTC and smell HCN, presence of mid‐phalangeal hair, and color blindness. A modified PTC sorting test indicated a nontaster allele ( t ) frequency of 0.29 in Ticul, a relatively high result for Ameri…
Application of the Kolmogorov‐Smirnov test to seasonal phenomena may be inappropriate
The Kolmogorov‐Smirnov one‐sample test is sometimes used to test seasonality in births or other annually cyclic phenomena. However, it is shown that the maximum deviation from expected (D) may differ by a factor of almost two if the cycle is initiated in different months. Thus, different results are possible from the same data. Unless there is a logical initiation point in a cycle, it is probably better to use other nonparametric statistical test…
Phenylketonuria: A balanced polymorphism in Europe
Hydrogen cyanide and phenylthiocarbamide sensitivity, mid‐phalangeal hair and color blindness in Yucatán, Mexico
Approximately 1450 persons, 800 of them unrelated, of both sexes from age eigth upward from the town of Ticul, Yucatán, Mexico, formed an American Indian (Maya) sample with apparently little Caucasian admixture for four genetic tests: ability to taste PTC and smell HCN, presence of mid‐phalangeal hair, and color blindness. A modified PTC sorting test indicated a nontaster allele ( t ) frequency of 0.29 in Ticul, a relatively high result for Ameri…
Human Ecology, Heat Adaptation, and Belief Systems: The Hot-Cold Syndrome of Yucatan
The cultural nature of the "hot-cold" syndrome has been emphasized in previous studies. I suggest that the syndrome is also an important aspect of biocultural adaptation among the Maya of Yucatan, especially in prevention of heatstroke and heat cramps, because it includes physiologically realistic rules for behavior during work in a hot climate
New Evidence for a Late Introduction of Malaria into the New World [and Comments and Reply]
New evidence is offered to strengthen the case for a post-Conquest introduction of malaria into the New World. An investigation of human physiological factors influencing host selection by malaria vectors revealed a strong preference by Anopheles gambiae for human hosts with blood-group O. The unique, overwhelming group-O frequency present among indigenous American populations is seen as a result of mother-child ABO incompatibility effects operat…
Phenylketonuria: A balanced polymorphism in Europe
Secular trend for stature in adult male Yucatec Maya to 1968
Statures for 64 adult male Yucatec Maya (18+ years old, sons of campesinos) were measured in 1968 and compared with mean statures presented in results for previous studies. There were no significant changes in mean stature since 1895. If the sample is divided into 5‐year age groups, no secular trend is evident. Using osteological information from as early as the Late Preclassic, stature of adult Maya males has decreased 119 mm in a little more th…
Age‐specific variation in the secular trend for stature: A comparison of samples from industrialized and nonindustrialized regions
Age‐specific secular trend patterns for children in industrialized world regions have a regular pattern, beginning low at age 6 and increasing to a maximum at age 10 to 14, then declining. While magnitude differs, the patterns are ordinarily parallel, especially in the female samples. However, age‐specific secular trend values for children from developing regions, or from areas of industrialized countries not benefitting substantially from develo…
Application of the Kolmogorov‐Smirnov test to seasonal phenomena may be inappropriate
The Kolmogorov‐Smirnov one‐sample test is sometimes used to test seasonality in births or other annually cyclic phenomena. However, it is shown that the maximum deviation from expected (D) may differ by a factor of almost two if the cycle is initiated in different months. Thus, different results are possible from the same data. Unless there is a logical initiation point in a cycle, it is probably better to use other nonparametric statistical test…
Estimation of minimal selection pressure in a recessive trait from migration across climatic clines
Geographic distribution of consanguinity in Europe
Average consanguinity (alpha) of 20 large regional or national samples derived from Roman Catholic Dispensations or state archives shows a strong negative relationship with latitude (r = -0.738; P less than 0.001) which seems best explained by cultural-historical factors. Isolates show no such pattern and are more variable in their inbreeding levels. Two-way analysis of variance shows the sample division by population size to be significant, the …
Relation of community size to endogamy in a traditional soceity: Pátzcuaro, Mexico, 1903–1932
Community endogamy is often a preferred cultural practice, although in traditional populations small community size make universal endogamy difficult for lack of appropriate mates. Using civil marriage records from an early 20th century Tarascan Mexican population, the association of local community size, transferred to long values, and endogamy is tested using 2,663 marriages for 40 locations situated in two municipios (counties) forming the Sou…
Culling the cousins: Kingship, kinship, and competition in mid-millennial England
Kin selection, an aspect of evolutionary theory, argues that, all else equal, individuals should give preferential treatment to relatives, based on the degree of relatedness [Hamilton, W. D. (1964). The genetical evolution of social behaviour I, II. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 7, 1–52.]. However, one may observe instances where competition for scarce or unique resources is stronger between family members than between unrelated individuals. Su…
Reply to Delanghe, Speeckaert, and De Buyzere: “The evolutionary adaptation of hemochromatosis associated mutations during the Neolithic”
The evolutionary adaptation of the C 282 Y mutation to culture and climate during the E uropean N eolithic
OBJECTIVES: The C282Y allele is the major cause of hemochromatosis as a result of excessive iron absorption. The mutation arose in continental Europe no earlier than 6,000 years ago, coinciding with the arrival of the Neolithic agricultural revolution. Here we hypothesize that this new Neolithic diet, which originated in the sunny warm and dry climates of the Middle East, was carried by migrating farmers into the chilly and damp environments of E…
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