Evaluating microevolutionary models for the early settlement of the New World: The importance of recurrent gene flow with Asia

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 539-552

  De Azevedo, Soledad ^a   Nocera, Ariadna ^b   Paschetta, Carolina ^a   Castillo, Lucía ^a   González, Marina ^a   González José, Rolando ^a  

^a Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Amerindians; geometric morphometrics; quantitative genetics; settlement models; skull shape

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; CRANIOMETRY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; POPULATION DISPERSION; SKULL BASE;

AMERICAN NATIVE CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AMERICAS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; ASIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AUSTRALASIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CEPHALOMETRY; CLIMATE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHENOTYPE; SKULL;

EID: 80955141850     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21564     Document Type: Article

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