Variation of head and facial morphological characteristics with increased age of Han in Southern China

We investigated 13940 (6735 male, 7250 female) adult head and facial physical attributes from 19 different Han ethnic groups in 10 southern-China provinces, and calculated 12 head and facial indexes. Indexes were used to analyze the variation of head and facial morphological characteristics with inc...

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Published in:Chinese science bulletin 2013-02, Vol.58 (4-5), p.517-524
Main Authors: Li, YongLan, Zheng, LianBin, Yu, KeLi, Lu, ShunHua, Zhang, XingHua, Li, YuLing, Wang, Yang, Xue, Hong, Deng, Wei
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Chemistry/Food Science
ears
Earth Sciences
Engineering
face
head circumference
Humanities and Social Sciences
Life Sciences
mouth
multidisciplinary
nationalities and ethnic groups
nose
Physics
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
中国南方
头指数
头面部
宽度
年龄
形态特征
汉族
物理属性
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Summary:We investigated 13940 (6735 male, 7250 female) adult head and facial physical attributes from 19 different Han ethnic groups in 10 southern-China provinces, and calculated 12 head and facial indexes. Indexes were used to analyze the variation of head and facial morphological characteristics with increased age. Results showed that as age increases: (1) Head breadth, minimum frontal breadth, face breadth, interocular breadth, external biocular breadth, lip height, lip thickness, head circumference, auricular height, length-breadth head index, length-height head index, and lip-index values decline significantly in a linear fashion. (2) Nose breadth, mouth breadth, morphological facial height, upper-lip height, physiognomic ear length, physiognomic ear breadth, visor skin-fold, and vertical head-facial index values significantly increase in a linear fashion.
ISSN:1001-6538
1861-9541
DOI:10.1007/s11434-012-5644-7