Mandibular ramus flexureis a good indicator of sexual dimorphism
β Scribed by Loth, Susan R.; Henneberg, Maciej
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 20 KB
- Volume
- 105
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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β¦ Synopsis
Kalevi Koski
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Loth and Henneberg (1996, Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 99:473-487) identified a single morphological feature of the mandible, the presence or absence of a distinct flexure or angulation of the posterior margin of the mandibular ramus at the level of the occlusal plane, which appears to be an extraordinar
Described as a highly reliable method of sex identification, mandibular ramus flexure is a morphological trait expressed on the posterior border of the ramus at the occlusal plane (Loth and Henneberg [1996] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 99:473-485). In a blind test, 158 mandibles were examined for the pre
assert that they have discovered a single morphologic indicator of sexual dimorphism in the human mandible that rivals the predictive accuracy of the complete pelvis at 94.2% for all samples (99% for healthy samples). To test the accuracy of their method, mandibles (n Ο 150) from the Tepe Hissar col