Sex differences in radioulnar contrasts of the finger ridge counts across 21 human population samples.

doi:10.1080/03014460.2023.2247970

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Sex differences in radioulnar contrasts of the finger ridge counts across 21 human population samples.

Annals of human biology - 1 Feb 2023

Polcerová L, Jantz R L, Králík M, Chovancová M, Čuta M

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Aim: The aim of the present study was to demonstrate the existence of uniform sexual dimorphism in some radioulnar contrasts between different finger ridge counts within the same hand in a large set of populations, thus confirming the universal nature of this dimorphism in humans.Subjects and methods: We analysed individual finger ridge counts (10 values on each hand) of both hands from archival sources (mainly...

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Adult
Female
Humans
Male
Pregnancy
Fingers
Hand
Phenotype
Sex Characteristics
Sex Factors

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PMID: 37647353
DOI: 10.1080/03014460.2023.2247970

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