Morphological and regional variations in body dimensions of the Gujjars of different localities in North-Western India
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7637908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R S Balgir (Panjab University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 275-285 |
| Publication date | 2003-09-05 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropologischer Anzeiger (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5548 • E-ISSN: 2363-7099 |
| Publisher | Schweizerbart (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1127/anthranz/61/2003/275 |
| PMID | 14524001 |
| OpenAlex | W192192727 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
Physical features and somatometric characters of the wide spread Gujjar population in North-Western India are fascinating. It is all the more interesting to study their morphological and regional variations in the body dimensions. In this paper, anthropometric characters of 200 adult subjects each belonging to Hindu Gujjars in the Ropar District of Punjab and Muslim Gujjars in the Chamba District of Himachal Pradesh in the North-Western part of India were compared. They differ significantly from each other for many physiognomic measurements, suggesting the biological diversity between the two population groups. Further, the comparison of anthropometric measurements between the different localities of the Gujjars showed morphological variations and regional diversity of the isolates in North-Western India. These findings may be attributed to the founder effect, genetic drift, and breeding and geographical isolation of the populations under study and not to secular trends. The findings have also been compared and discussed with the available results of other local populations in North-Western India.
Anthropometry · Archaeology · Biology · Diversity (politics) · Geography · North india · Population · Regional variation · Socioeconomics · Demography · Ecology · Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock · Livestock Management and Performance Improvement
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |