Deconstructing reconstruction
The OH 62 humerofemoral index
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8313692 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kenneth A Korey (Dartmouth College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 83 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 25-33 |
| Publication date | 1990-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.1330830104 |
| PMID | 2221028 |
| OpenAlex | W2147998580 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 10 |
The humerus and femur of the fossil hominid OH 62 are badly damaged and their lengths are not directly measurable (Johanson et al., 1987). Nevertheless, using relatively intact reference materials from another early hominid, AL 288‐1, Johanson et al. (1987) reconstructed the bones to estimate the humerofemoral index, which falls well above the range for modern Homo , above the estimate for AL 288‐1, and within the range for Pan paniscus . The reconstruction of missing bone by the method originally employed for OH 62 is broadly reproducible in a representative modern sample of Homo , making possible the estimation of an associated error term intrinsic to this method. Using the approximate variance of the ratio mean (Kish, 1965), shown here to be a good estimator of the sample variance of the humerofemoral index, the analysis of this modern sample extrapolated to other living hominoids gives quite acceptable results. Applied to OH 62, it suggests an error term associated with the estimated humerofemoral index so substantial that it is only possible to situate the index somewhere between the distributions for Homo and Gorilla , and quite possibly not above the index for AL 288‐1. On the other hand, the predicted distribution for the humerofemoral index of AL 288‐1 is more securely placed between the distributions for Homo and Pan paniscus
Biology · Estimator · Gorilla · Index (typography · Pan paniscus · Physics · Range (aeronautics · Sample (material · Sample variance · Statistics · Variance (accounting · Zoology · Computer Science · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · Materials Science · Mathematics · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Primate Behavior and Ecology
Origin of Bipedal Locomotion
The Genus Homo in Africa
Human evolution
Fossils, feet and the evolution of human bipedal locomotion
Are the differences between Stw 431 (Australopithecus africanus) and A.L. 288-1 (A. afarensis) significant
Early hominin limb proportions
The Origins of Bipedal Locomotion
The Origins of Bipedal Locomotion
Interlimb Proportions in Humans and Fossil Hominins
Climbing to the top
Australopithecines
Relative limb strength and locomotion in Homo habilis
Body proportions of Homo habilis reviewed
Spatial and temporal variation of body size among early Homo
Evolutionary reversals of limb proportions in early hominids? evidence from KNM-ER 3735 (Homo habilis)
Was "Lucy" more human than her "child"? Observations on early hominid postcranial skeletons
Limb-size proportions in Australopithecus afarensis and Australopithecus africanus
Associated ilium and femur from Koobi Fora, Kenya, and postcranial diversity in early Homo
Introduction to special issue
The long limb bones of the StW 573 Australopithecus skeleton from Sterkfontein Member 2
The taxonomic attribution of African hominin postcrania from the Miocene through the Pleistocene
Body Size, Body Shape, and the Circumscription of the Genus Homo
EarlyHomo
Plio-Pleistocene Hominid Limb Proportions
Australopithecus to Homo
La diaphyse fémorale AL 333-61
Relative fibular strength and locomotor behavior in KNM-WT 15000 and OH 35
A Systematic Assessment of Early African Hominids
Lucy's limbs
New partial skeleton of Homo habilis from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Functional Morphology of Homo habilis
Body proportions, skeletal allometry and locomotion in the hadar hominids
Relative growth of the limbs and trunk in the African apes
Lucy's length
Allometry between length and cross‐sectional dimensions of the femur and tibia in Homo sapiens sapiens
Lucy's little legs
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,77 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2022 (32) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |