title: Variability in body physique, ecology, and subsistence in the Fly River region of Papua New Guinea.
abstract: There are some 40,000 indigenous peoples of the Fly River drainage in Papua New Guinea. The 4,000-mm rainfall contour ecologically demarcates hunter-horticulturalist peoples living in the rainforests of the Upper Fly from hunter-gatherer peoples living in the savanna-swamplands of the Middle and Lower Fly. A complex of factors operate to create significant physical differences between Upper Fly peoples and those of the Middle and Lower Fly. The ecological division between rainforests and savanna-swamplands demarcates a clear clinal separation by stature of Upper Fly peoples from those of the Middle and Lower Fly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Australia.
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Hyndman
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Ulijaszek
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Lourie
mesh_terms: D000886:Anthropometry; D001824:Body Constitution; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D004032:Diet; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D010219:Papua New Guinea; D011891:Rain; D012727:Sex Characteristics