Contents volume 85 (2007)
Cover story
3 The genetic history of Italy: a male perspective
Cristian Capelli
5 Editorial
… news, good news
Giovanni Destro-Bisol
Invited Reviews
7-34 The taxonomic diversity of Colobinae of Africa
Colin Groves
35-62 The imitation faculty in monkeys: evaluating its features, distribution and evolution
Francys Subiaul
63-81 Play at work: revisiting data focusing on chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
Elisabetta Palagi
83-100 Distinctively human: cerebral lateralisation and language in Homo sapiens
Steven A. Chance & Timothy J. Crow
101-123 Biometry and anthropometry: from Galton to medical constitutionalism
Angelo Albrizio
Reports
125-138 Extracting functional, phylogenetic and structural data from the subcortical brain: an exploratory geometric morphometric survey
Emiliano Bruner & Nathan Jeffery
139-146 Neanderthals, Homo sapiens and the question of species in Paleoanthropology
Ian Tattersal
147-155 Resource availability and stature decrease in Upper Palaeolithic Europe
Vincenzo Formicola & Brigitte M. Holt
157-162 The role of historical research in the study of the primatological collections: case-studies from the Museum of Anthropology “G. Sergi”, Rome
Spartaco Gippoliti & Emiliano Bruner
163-171 An outline of the history of pellagra in Italy
Renato Mariani-Costantini & Aldo Mariani-Costantini
173-181 Concordance between blood and hair lead levels in boys and girls of Sardinia (Italy)
Emanuele Sanna, Luciano Vargiu, Ivo Rossetti, Elisabetta Vallascas & Giovanni Floris
183-193 Subsistence hunting and exploitation of mammals in the Haut-Ogooué province, south-eastern Gabon
Giuseppe M. Carpaneto, Alessandro Fusari & Hilaire Okongo
195-203 Antrocom, an opportunity for Anthropology
Lucia Galasso & Moreno Tiziani
205-211 The genome and public choices: new questions for Anthropology
Fabrizio Rufo
Do it yourself
213-219 How to equip a basic histological lab for the anthropological assessment of human bone and teeth
Robert Paine
JASs forum
221-239 Ethics and altruism in the human evolutionary history
Enrico Alleva, Fiorenzo Facchini, Orlando Franceschelli, Bonaventura Majolo, Alberto Oliverio, Gabriele Schino & Augusto Vitale
241-243 Guide to authors