The causes of craniofacial variation among human populations have been the subject of
controversy. In this work, we studied aboriginal populations from southern South America …

Aim Understanding the importance of ecological factors in the origin and maintenance of
patterns of phenotypic variation among populations, in an explicit geographical context, is …

Extensive research in human genetics on presumably neutral loci has shown that the
overwhelming majority of human diversity is found among individuals within local …

The means by which various microevolutionary processes have acted in the past to produce
patterns of cranial variation that characterize modern humans is not thoroughly understood …

Previous studies of genetic markers and mitochondrial DNA have found that the amount of
variation among major geographic groupings of Homo sapiens is relatively low, accounting …

South Amerindians are frequently thought of as a rather biologically homogeneous
megapopulation. However, when native South Americans are assessed by information …

Migration is expected to affect craniometric variation in three ways: 1) movement into a
different environment leading to developmental plasticity; 2) movement into a different …

Objectives This study assesses the extent to which relationships among groups complicate
comparative studies of adaptation in recent human cranial variation and the extent to which …

The study of cranial variation has a long, and somewhat difficult, history within anthropology.
Much of this difficulty is rooted in the historical use of craniometric data to justify essentialist …

This comparison of morphological and neutral genetic variation in 10 human populations
was designed to test a neutral hypothesis of cranial evolution in living and recent humans …