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AI-generated faces show lower morphological diversity then real faces do 人工智能生成的人脸形态多样性低于真实人脸

Anthropological Review Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.18778/1898-6773.87.1.06

Olga Boudníková, Karel Kleisner

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The presence of Homo in Sicily: evidence, hypotheses and uncorroborated ideas. An archaeo-anthropological perspective 西西里岛智人的存在：证据、假设和未经证实的观点。考古人类学视角

Anthropological Review Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.18778/1898-6773.87.1.07

Claudia Portaro, E. Varotto, L. Sìneo, F. M. Galassi

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Tuberculous spondylitis: Macromorphological and radiological studies on a skeleton from the Late Iron Age monument of Nor Armavir, Armenia 结核性脊柱炎：对亚美尼亚诺尔阿尔马维尔铁器时代晚期古迹中一具骨骼的宏观形态学和放射学研究

Anthropological Review Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.18778/1898-6773.87.1.08

A. Khudaverdyan, A. Yengibaryan, S. Hmayakyan, Nvart G. Tiratsyan, M. Hmayakyan, Shota A. Vardanyan, Anna P. Antonyan, Vahan R. Kocharyan

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Possible future evolutionary consequences to Homo as a result of the implementation of biotechnology 生物技术的应用对人类未来进化可能产生的影响

Anthropological Review Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.18778/1898-6773.87.1.05

A. Saniotis, F. Galassi, M. Henneberg

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The diet of the human groups buried in a late- and post-Medieval rural parish cemetery in Libkovice (Czech Republic) 埋葬在利布科维采（捷克共和国）中世纪晚期和中世纪后期农村教区墓地中的人类群体的饮食习惯

Anthropological Review Pub Date : 2023-11-29 DOI: 10.18778/1898-6773.86.4.03

A. Karykowska, P. Konczewski, Barbara Kwiatkowska, Joanna Witan, A. Lisowska-Gaczorek, Krzysztof Szostek

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Dyslipidemia in pre- and post-menopausal women: a study of peri-urban Paundra Kshatriya women 绝经前后妇女的血脂异常：对城市周边 Paundra 刹帝利妇女的研究

Anthropological Review Pub Date : 2023-11-23 DOI: 10.18778/1898-6773.86.4.02

D. K. Adak, Nitamoni Bharali, Saptarshi Biswas, N. Bagchi, Tapas Kumar Biswas, Vadlamudi Raghavendra Rao

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Spina bifida oculta in skeletal population from Dąbrówki (Poland, Podlaskie Province) 来自 Dąbrówki（波兰，波德拉谢省）的骨骼人群中的脊柱裂患者

Anthropological Review Pub Date : 2023-11-20 DOI: 10.18778/1898-6773.86.4.01

A. Myszka, Adrian Wolski, Joanna Wawrzeniuk, Jacek Tomczyk

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