The Dermatoglyphics of the Peoples of New Guinea: A Review

Chapters in this book

1. I-VI I
2. General Editor’s Preface VII
3. Introduction XIII
4. SECTION ONE: Methodology
5. An Inkless Method of Recording Dermal Ridges 3
6. Critical Remarks on Some Methodological Procedures in the Field of Dermatoglyphics 11
7. A Methodology for Dermatoglyphics – Fingers and Palms 19
8. SECTION TWO: Nonhuman Primates
9. A New Technique for Examining Primate Dermatoglyphics 57
10. Characteristics of Intercore Ridge Count in Rhesus Monkeys 65
11. SECTION THREE: Human Populations
12. Sex Differences in Finger-Pattern Frequencies in Different Populations 75
13. Finger Ridge Counts in Samples from Tribal Populations of India with Application of a Three-Factor Theory 91
14. A Quantitative Analysis of the Alignment of Palmar Main Line A in an Indian Population 103
15. Dermatoglyphics in Two Yukpa Groups from the Sierra de Perijá: Chaparro and Parirí 107
16. Dermatoglyphics Among the Toba Indians of Argentina 131
17. Dermatoglyphic Variation in Five Eskimo Groups from Northwestern Alaska 145
18. Recent Anthropological Data on the Ammassalimiut Eskimo of East Greenland: Comparative Studies 153
19. Hungarian Dermatoglyphics and Their Relation to the Origin of the Hungarian People 167
20. Dermatoglyphic Differentiation of the Population of the U.S.S.R. 177
21. The Dermatoglyphics of the Peoples of New Guinea: A Review 195
22. Some Characteristics of Fingerprints and Palmprints in the Rembarranga Tribe in the Northern Territory, Australia 215
23. SECTION FOUR: Genetics
24. A Genetic Model for the Inheritance of a Dermatoglyphic Trait: Absence of the Palmar c-Triradius 223
25. A Curve-Fitting Method for Estimating the Number of Loci in Total Finger Ridge Count and Its Implications for the Number of Loci Involved in Skin Color 231
26. A Comparison of Dermatoglyphic and Genetic Similarity Indices in Rhesus Monkeys 237
27. SECTION FIVE: Medicine
28. Dermatoglyphics and Creases in Their Relationship to Clinical Syndromes: A Diagnostic Criterion? 263
29. Dermatoglyphics in Dyscephaly Saethre-Chotzen (Acrocephalosyndactyly Type III, Chotzen Syndrome) 283
30. Dermatoglyphics in Cerebral Gigantism 291
31. Dermatoglyphics in Microcephaly and Hydrocephaly 301
32. Palmar Dermatoglyphics in Celiac Sprue 307
33. Dermatoglyphic Patterns in Endemic Cretinism 317
34. Factors Influencing Digital Dermatoglyphics in Congenital Rubella 329
35. Dermatoglyphic Laterality, Sex-Chromosome Mosaicism, and Temporal-Lobe Epilepsy 337
36. Main Line Index and Transversality in Trisomy 21 351
37. Tibial-Arch Patterns on the Hallucal Area of Nonmongol Mentally Retarded 357
38. Biographical Notes 365
39. Index of Names 373
40. Index of Subjects 379