Selected References (for Eisenberg lecture, 4/29/08)
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Bocquet-Appel, JP and C. Masset
1996
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Buikstra, JE and LW Konigsberg
1985
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Gage, TB
1985
1988
Hoppa, RD
1996
1999
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Hoppa, RD and SR Saunders
1997
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Hoppa RD and JW Vaupel, editors
2000
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Konigsberg, LW and SR Frankenberg
1992
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Lanphear, KM
1989
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Meindl, RS, CO Lovejoy and RP Mensforth
1983
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Milner, GR, DA Humpf and HC Harpending
1990
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American Journal of Physical Anthropology 80: 49-58.
Siven, CH
1991
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International Journal of Anthropology 6(2): 111-118.
VanGerven, DP and GJ Armelagos
1984
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Exaggerated. Journal of Human Evolution 12: 353-360.
Verano, JW and DH Ubelaker, editors
1992
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Washington, DC.
Waldron, T
1994
2007
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Palaeoepidemiology. Left Coast Press Inc., Walnut Creek, California.
Wood, JW and GR Milner
1993
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