The value of middle phalangeal hair as an anthropometric marker: A review of the literature

Westlund, Norman; Oinonen, Kirsten A.; Mazmanian, Dwight; Bird, Jessica L.

doi:10.1016/j.jchb.2015.02.003

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“…Yet, although some smaller studies with specific samples compared various national groups (e.g., Chin et al., ; Santner et al., ), there seems to be remarkable lack of cross‐cultural studies with national representative samples that have directly compared androgen levels. Similar to previous studies (e.g., Dutton et al., ; Westlund et al., ), we therefore used a set of indirect indicators of the level of, or sensitivity to, androgens. They were selected on the basis of two criteria.…”

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“…Androgenic hair Androgen levels are associated with hirsute, one established proxy for which is the number of hairs on the mid-phalangeal segment of the 4th digit (i.e., the middle segment of the ring finger). A number of reviews and meta-analyses have compiled data on the proportion of people having mid-phalangeal hair in various countries (Hindley & Damon, 1973;Westlund et al, 2015), based on which Dutton et al (2016) reported estimates of the proportion of the population with mid-phalangeal hair (MPH) for 124 countries. No estimates were present for South-American, and Southern and central African countries.…”

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“…Insofar as the link between androgen levels and creativity/eminence has any merit, one would expect that country‐level variation in average androgen levels or sensitivity, as some previous studies have suggested (Dutton, van der Linden & Lynn, ; Westlund, Oinonen, Mazmanian & Bird, ), may partially underlie overall scientific productivity and the likelihood of an individual winning a science Nobel prize. The most direct way to test this proposition is to compare the androgen levels of high‐productive scholars and Nobel laureates with those of less productive and successful scientists.…”

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National‐level Indicators of Androgens are Related to the Global Distribution of Scientific Productivity and Science Nobel Prizes

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There are national differences in scientific activity that are not well accounted for by economic and intellectual factors alone. We examine the novel hypothesis that androgen levels may also play a role. Androgens are often referred to as male hormones, but are present in both men and women, and have been linked to performance in other domains, such as sports and entrepreneurship. National‐level empirical data on scientific productivity, in terms of numbers of publications, and science Nobel laureates were compared to seven national‐level androgen indicators; namely androgenic body hair, the length of the CAG repeat on the androgen receptor gene, prostate cancer incidence, male and female 2D:4D finger ratio, and sex frequency and number of partners. The majority of these indicators were associated in the expected direction with per capita number of scientific publications and Nobel prizes. Moreover, several indicators significantly interacted with national‐level estimates of intelligence, such that androgen levels are related to measures of the scientific achievement only when the level of intelligence is relatively high. These findings may partly explain the global distribution of scientific productivity, achievements, and Nobel prizes.

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Population differences in androgen levels: A test of the Differential K theory

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A New Morphological Trait in Forensic Identification – Middle Phalangeal Hair (MPH)

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Kanchan

2016

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Middle phalangeal hairs (MPH) are present on the dorsal aspect of the middle phalange of the fingers except for the thumb. The MPH have been of interest to anthropologists, human biologists, clinicians, geneticists and anatomists in the past as a morphological trait of the human body. The anthropological value of MPH is well established in studying population variations, with implications for age, ancestry and sex differences. We are of the opinion that MPH may be used significantly for forensic identification purposes along with other morphological characteristics of the human body. MPH can be one of the individualistic features in comparing the ante-mortem and post-mortem records in mass fatality incidents and in establishing identity in forensic casework pertaining to CCTV images of the hand.

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The value of middle phalangeal hair as an anthropometric marker: A review of the literature

Cited by 3 publications

References 88 publications

National‐level Indicators of Androgens are Related to the Global Distribution of Scientific Productivity and Science Nobel Prizes

National‐level Indicators of Androgens are Related to the Global Distribution of Scientific Productivity and Science Nobel Prizes

Population differences in androgen levels: A test of the Differential K theory

A New Morphological Trait in Forensic Identification – Middle Phalangeal Hair (MPH)

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