American Journal of Physical Anthropology
The peopling of America: Craniofacial shape variation on a continental scale and its interpretation from an interdisciplinary view
Rolando González-José et al.
Abstract
Twenty-two years ago, Greenberg, Turner and Zegura (Curr. Anthropol. 27,477-495, 1986) suggested a multidisciplinary model for the human settlement of the New World. Since their synthesis, several studies based mainly on partial evidence such as skull morphology and molecular genetics have presented competing, apparently mutually exclusive, settlement hypotheses. These contradictory views are represented by the genetic-based Single Wave or Out of Beringia models and the cranial morphology-based Two Components/Stocks model. Here, we present a geometric morphometric analysis of 576 late Pleistocene/early Holocene and modern skulls suggesting that the classical Paleoamerican and Mongoloid craniofacial patterns should be viewed as extremes of a continuous morphological variation. Our results also suggest that recent contact among Asian and American circumarctic populations took place during the Holocene. These results along with data from other fields are synthesized in a model for the settlement of the New World that considers, in an integrative and parsimonious way, evidence coming from genetics and physical anthropology. This model takes into account a founder population occupying Beringia during the last glaciation characterized by high craniofacial diversity, founder mtDNA and Y-chromosome lineages and some private autosomal alleles. After a Beringian population expansion, which could have occurred concomitant with their entry into America, more recent circumarctic gene flow would have enabled the dispersion of northeast Asian-derived characters and some particular genetic lineages from East Asia to America and vice versa.
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I'd like to see studies measuring the Cranioface shapes of people,within the same ethnic demographic or same haplogroup.This could be done on both the Mt and Y sides of the family-does your head match your genes?
In fact each haplogroup should be studied in EVERYWAY to pinpoint and define what constitutes their very being,essence,and existance and so forth.I'd like DNA love/dating services too,and an economic consortium to see if money and land is equally distributed to each person within their own haplogroup/and subgroups.And of course health care should acknowledge that your race is your medicine and consider your genetic ancestry along with you regular checkups. Full (Crop) Circle,Dude!
Rand, I detect a note of sarcasm in your tone.
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