0577239 - ARÚ 2025 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Kleisner, K. - Pokorný, Š. - Černý, Viktor
Sexually dimorphic traits are associated with subsistence strategy in African faces from the Sahel/Savannah belt.
American Journal of Human Biology. Roč. 36, č. 4 (2024), č. článku e24008. ISSN 1042-0533. E-ISSN 1520-6300
Grant - others:AV ČR(CZ) AP2203
Program: Akademická prémie - Praemium Academiae
Institutional support: RVO:67985912
Keywords : pastoralism * Sahel * sexual dimorphism
OECD category: Antropology, ethnology
Impact factor: 1.6, year: 2023 ; AIS: 0.578, rok: 2023
Method of publishing: Open access
Result website:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.24008DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.24008

Populations living in the African Sahel/Savannah belt have a different facial morphology when considering their subsistence. In this study we investigated whether the lifestyle has an impact also on sexual dimorphism by means of several geometric morphometrics methods. We have shown that the facial traits which correlate with a subsistence strategy are systematically associated with levels of facial sex-typicality and that faces with more pronounced pastoralist features have on average more masculine facial traits and that this effect is more pronounced in men than in women. Though, the magnitude of overall facial dimorphism does not differ between pastoralists and farmers, pastoralists (in contrast to farmers) tend to have a more masculine facial morphology but facial differences between the sexes are in both groups the same.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0346480
Research data: Open Science Framework