A system analysis of the general human constitution

The correlations between three systems of signs have been studied using the results of a complex anthropological examination of 669 young men and girls from 16 to 23 years old, including the measurement of 40 body, head, and face parameters, fingerprinting, and the determination of personal psychophysiologic characteristics based on Eysenck, Spielberger, Strelau and Cattell tests using different methods of the multivariate statistics. The author has suggested the original model of correlations between somatic, dermatoglyphic, and psychological signs in the structure of the general human constitution based on the statistically significant canonical correlations (obtained by the author) and taking into consideration the degree of influence exerted by a genetic and socio-economic complex of factors (according to the literature data) on the development and formation of the investigated systems of signs. The evidences of the concept stipulating the relative autonomy of morphofunctional systems as necessary for the integrity of an organism as a whole are presented according to the results of the work with the anthropologic material. © Allerton Press, Inc., 2009.