Tooth Size of Living Peoples in Western and Eastern Micronesian Populations

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ID6135861
AutoresEisaku Kanazawa (Department of Anatomy, Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo), Masanobu Matsuno (Department of Anatomy, Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo), Takashi Nakabayashi (Department of Anatomy, Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo), Yuriko Igarashi (0000-0002-0825-9696, Department of Anatomy, Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo), Akiko Nagai (0000-0001-8162-5835, Department of Anatomy, Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo)
Ano1998
Volume106
Fascículo3
Páginas199-208
Data de publicação1998-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAnthropological Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0918-7960 • E-ISSN: 1348-8570
EditoraAnthropological Society of Nippon (PUBLISHER • JP)
DOI10.1537/ase.106.199
OpenAlexW2114383661
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas6

Tooth size of two populations from Micronesia was measured and compared with other Pacific populations. Subjects were high school students of Kiribati and Palau, surveyed in 1995 and 1996. Mesiodistal diameters were generally larger in Palau than in Kiribati in both sexes, while buccolingual diameters of Kiribati were slightly larger than those of Palau. Mahalanobis' distances were computed on the basis of these parameters among 10 Pacific populations. Two dimensional expression of the distances in multi-dimensional scaling showed that Palau and Kiribati were plotted in the center of the first axis closely to Samoa, while Fiji and Negritos were plotted on both ends of the axis. The two Micronesians were separated on the second axis. The results of cluster analysis revealed that Kiribati was classified into Fiji group, while Palau was grouped with Samoa and modern Philippines

Biology · Ethnology · Geography · Micronesian · Cleft Lip and Palate Research · Demography · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology