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In this paper we present an overview of an increasingly global community of physical (biological) anthropologists as it pertains to the study of living human variation (human biology) and as it is represented in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology (AJPA), focusing especially on the period of 2001-2007, when Clark Spencer Larsen served as editor in chief. The journal was founded by Aleš Hrdlička in order to provide professional identity of physical (biological) anthropology as practiced in the United States. By the mid-twentieth century, the journal editorship under T. Dale Stewart called for greater presence of international research collaboration and publication in AJPA. By 1960, international collaboration and non-U.S. authorship began to have significant presence in the journal, a pattern that has continued to the present. As in the pre-2000 period, although non-U.S. contributions cover all major topics in human biology, they tend to focus on population genetics and population history. For the period of 2001-2007, there is an increased presence of multinational collaborative research and non-U.S. authorship, a trend that will likely increase. The recent rise in non-U.S. submissions and authorship is due in large part to increased international collaboration and electronic access to the submission process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The biocultural interpretation of skeletal remains is based upon the foundation of skeletal biology. In this review we examine the current state of skeletal biology research outside of the mainstream anthropology literature. The focus is on the structural changes of bone development and growth, and modeling and repair in the four bone surfaces: periosteal, Haversian, endosteal, and trabecular. The pattern of skeletal changes is placed within the framework of the human life span. New perspectives and direction of research on the environmental, biological, and genetic influences on modeling and remodeling processes are discussed chronologically at each bone surface. Implications for biological anthropologists are considered. This approach emphasizes variation in skeletal biology as a dynamic record of development, maturity, and aging. Yrbk Phys Anthropol 54:86-98, 2011. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on physical anthropology. Discipline of physical anthropology; Strength of the discipline; Identities of the science.

Pays tribute to physical anthropologist William Sprott Pollitzer who passed away on March 12, 2002. Educational background; Achievements as anatomy instructor and academician; Contributions to the field of physical anthropology.

The article offers information on the 67th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists to be held at the Salt Lake Hilton Center hotel located in Salt Lake City, Utah from March 31?April 4, 1998.

Announces the increase in issue length of the "American Journal of Physical Anthropology." Number of published pages per year; Impact of the submission rate increase on the rise in number of manuscripts in the publication queue; Indication of a growth in interest by physical anthropologists and scientists from allied disciplines in the publication of their research findings.