Volume 86 (2008)

Digital Morphology: modelling anatomy and evolution

For a long time paleoanthropology has been constrained by two main limitations: the physical restrictions of the fossil themselves, and the application of a linear and accepted reductionism in the interpretation of the phylogenetic process. The first problem is maybe the major historical constraint in paleontology. This is the only scientific discipline in which every possible interest and investment (cultural or economical, personal or institutional) is centred onto a specific physical object...

The Journal of Anthropological Sciences (JASs) is the official publication of the Istituto Italiano di Antropologia (ISItA). It is the continuation of the Atti della Societa' Romana di Antropologia (from 1893 to 1910) and Rivista di Antropologia (until 2003).

The JASs publishes original articles, notes and reviews concerning all aspects of evolutionary anthropology (primatology, human paleontology, prehistory, biology and genetics of extinct and extant populations), with particular attention towards interdisciplinary approaches. Each manuscript is subjected to review by specialists.

Starting from the volume 85 (2007), the JASs is included in the Social Science Citation Index.