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Evolutionary population history of early Paleoamerican cranial morphology.
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- Tracing Human Diversity in South America's Southern Cone: Linguistic, Morphometric, and Genetic Perspectives.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
- Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans.American journal of biological anthropology · 2025Article
- Morphometric affinities and direct radiocarbon dating of the Toca dos Coqueiros' skull (Serra da Capivara, Brazil).Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Reply to: Craniofacial morphology does not support a pre-contact Carib "invasion" of the northern Caribbean.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Assessing the relative impact of historical divergence and inter-group transmission on cultural patterns: a method from evolutionary ecology.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Article
- Terminal Pleistocene Alaskan genome reveals first founding population of Native Americans.Nature · 2018Article
- How strong was the bottleneck associated to the peopling of the Americas? New insights from multilocus sequence data.Genetics and molecular biology · 2018Article
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Abstract
The nature and timing of the peopling of the Americas is a subject of intense debate. In particular, it is unclear whether high levels of between-group craniometric diversity in South America result from multiple migrations or from local diversification processes. Previous attempts to explain this diversity have largely focused on testing alternative dispersal or gene flow models, reaching conflicting or inconclusive results. Here, a novel analytical framework is applied to three-dimensional geometric morphometric data to partition the effects of population divergence from geographically mediated gene flow to understand the ancestry of the early South Americans in the context of global human history. The results show that Paleoamericans share a last common ancestor with contemporary Native American groups outside, rather than inside, the Americas. Therefore, and in accordance with some recent genomic studies, craniometric data suggest that the New World was populated by multiple waves of dispersion from northeast Asia throughout the late Pleistocene and early Holocene.
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