Environmental factors are assumed to play an important role in the shaping of craniofacial
morphology. Here we propose a statistical approach which can be of utility in estimating the …

Abstract The Argentine Center‐West was the southernmost portion of the Andes where
domestication of plants and animals evolved. Populations located in the southern portion of …

Diet-related cranial variation in modern humans is well documented on a regional scale,
with ample examples of cranial changes related to the agricultural transition. However, the …

Morphological EvoDevo is a field of biological inquiry in which explicit relations between
evolutionary patterns and growth or morphogenetic processes are made. Historically …

We assess craniometric variation in 153 individually dated human crania from South Africa
with the aim of investigating genetic continuity/discontinuity during the Holocene. Evidence …

Currently, one of the major debates about the American peopling focuses on the number of
populations that originated the biological diversity found in the continent during the …

Objectives: To review dento-facial evolution based on fossil data, comparative anatomy,
developmental biology and genetics. Modern human evolution reveals profound insight into …

Human morphological variation has been described in previous research as reflecting and
responding to environmental factors. Among Europeans and Africans, cranial and …

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

Craniofacial sutures and synchondroses form the boundaries among bones in the human
skull, providing functional, developmental and evolutionary information. Bone articulations in …