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. 2016 Jul 5;371(1698):20150236. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0236

Table 2.

Samples by taxon (sample size).

skeletal postcranial skeletal cranial living somatometric
extant Homo sapiens
US early 1900s US early 1900s US immigrants early 1900s
H-T White (n = 40)
Erie County Poorhouse (n = 66)
H-T White (n = 38)
Erie County Poorhouse (n = 32)
Central Italian foreign and USA (n = 1147)
Scottish foreign and USA (n = 176)
archaeological archaeological indigenous Alaskans (1968 and 1906–1912)
Point Hope, Alaska (n = 47) Point Hope, Alaska (n = 57) Wainwright (n = 80)
Barrow (n = 88)
Nunatagamiut (n = 119)
MacKenzie (n = 87)
Victoria Island (n = 49)
Coronation Gulf (n = 110)
extant Old World monkeys and apes
Chlorocebus aethiops pygerythrus Kenyan vervets Kenyan vervets, four populations:
Kenyan wild (n = 17)
Kenyan captive (n = 17)
wild (n = 22)
captive (n = 18)
Naivasha (n = 44)
Samburu (n = 62)
Mosiro (n = 14)
Kimana (n = 33)
Macaca mulatta
Cayo Santiago (n = 80)
Indian wild shot (n = 2)
Cayo Santiago (n = 48)
Indian wild shot (n = 9)
Cayo Santiago (6–14 years; n = 196)
Indian somatic data (n = 23)
Macaca fuscata
Troop T-1 Takagoyama, (n = 61) Troop T-1 Takagoyama (n = 20) free-ranging macaques, 12 groups: (listed from north to south)
Nikko (n = 26)
Shiga (n = 71)
Hagachizaki (n = 71)
Takahama (n = 30)
Arashiyama (n = 68)
Wakasa (n = 30)
Ngatoro (n = 68)
Awajishima (n = 29)
Shodoshimo takamatsu (n = 40)
Takasakiyama (n = 302)
Koshima (n = 98)
M. f. yakui (captive; n = 79)
Homo erectus Homo neanderthalensis other Homo
cranial and postcranial
Ngandong, Indonesia (n = 6)
Dmanisi, Georgia (n = 8)
Zhoukoudian, China (n = 7)
Koobi Fora, Kenya (n = 10)
Sangiran, Indonesia (n = 14)
Trinil, Indonesia (n = 3; postcranial)
Daka, Ethiopia (n = 2; postcranial)
Shanidar, Iraq (n = 6)
Krapina, Croatia (n = 9)
El Sidrón, Spain (n = 3)
European (n = 13)
Near Eastern (n = 4)
Atapuerca, Spain (n = 27)
Dinaledi, South Africa (n = 8)