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Research Groups 1) Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project 2) AHOB 3) Dikika Research Project 4) DRP 5) East African Geological Research Unit 6) East Rudolf Research Project 7) EP 8) Eyasi Plateau Paleontological Project 9) French-Chadian Paleoanthropological Mission 10) Gona Palaeoanthropological Research Project 11) GPRP 12) Hominid Corridor Research Project 13) International Afar Research Expedition 14) International Omo Research Expedition 15) Kohl-Larsen Expedition 16) Koobi Fora Research Project 17) Ledi-Geraru Research Project TOPIC ENTRY LIST 18) 19) 20) 21) 22) 23) 24) 25) 26) 27) 28) 29) 30) 31) 32) 33) 34) 35) 36) Middle Awash Research Project Middle Ledi Research Project Mission Pale´oanthropologique FrancoTchadienne Mission Scientifique de l’Omo MPFT National Geological Survey of China OLAPP Olduvai Landscape Paleoanthropology Project Omo Group Research Expedition Palaeo-Anthropology Research Unit Paleoanthropological Inventory of Ethiopia Rift Valley Research Mission in Ethiopia stage 3 project SPRP Sterkfontein Research Unit Swedish China Research Committee Swartkrans Paleoanthropological Research Project University of California’s Africa Expedition Woranso-Mille Paleontological Research Project LIFE HISTORY 1) altricial 2) adolescence 3) adolescent growth spurt 4) adrenarche 5) age at maturity 6) age at weaning 7) androgens 8) antagonistic pleiotropy hypothesis 9) catch-up growth 10) Charnov’s ‘‘dimensionless numbers’’ 11) childhood 12) development 13) DLNs 14) disposable soma hypothesis 15) Euler–Lotka equation 16) estrogens 17) fecundity 18) fixation 19) genetic correlation 20) genotype–environment interaction 21) gestation 22) gestation length 23) generation time 24) grandmother hypothesis 25) growth 26) growth factors 27) growth hormone 28) 29) 30) 31) 32) 33) 34) 35) 36) 37) 38) 39) 40) 41) 42) 43) 44) 45) 46) 47) 48) 49) 50) 51) 52) 53) 54) growth plate growth spurt heritability interbirth interval K-selection life history maternal effect maternal energy hypothesis maximum life span menarche menopause mortality mutation accumulation hypothesis parent/offspring conflict precocial post-weaning dependency puberty r-selection reproductive effort reproductive investment reaction norm secondarily altricial secondary sexual characteristics secular trend senescence weaning trade-off MORPHOMETRY I.
B. B. Leakey Foundation 84) TILLMIAP 85) Transvaal Museum 86) University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology 87) Viking Fund 88) Viking Fund Medal 89) Viking Summer Seminars in Physical Anthropology 90) von Koenigswald Collection 91) Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research 92) Wenner-Gren Foundation Supper Conferences 93) Witwatersrand University Department of Anatomy 94) Zoologische Staatssammlung Mu¨nchen 95) ZSM IV. Publications 1) Catalogue of Fossil Hominids 2) Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature 3) Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology V.