© Kamla-Raj 2004                                                                                 Anthropologist, 6(2): 137-139 (2004)

 

 

A Study on Step Distance and Its Relation with Some

Morphometric Features in Adult Male

 

Bijan Kumar Tripathy

 

Department of Anthropology, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India

E-mail: tripathybijan@rediffmail. Com

 

KEYWORDS  Anthropometery. Homo sapiens. Evolution. Stuctural Changes

 

Abstract The study presents observations on stepping pattern and correlates stride length or step distance with selected morphometric features e.g. stature, height trochanter, height tibiale, bitrochanter breadth, foot length, foot breadth and foot index. Except for the latter, correlation values in all other cases are negative. observation on stepping linearity reveals predominant occurrence of divergent type of steps while the first step covering a distance larger than the following steps is observed in majority of cases.

 


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