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Anthropology

wnylib

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1. I'm skeptical of the meaningfulness of

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Apr 15, 2020, 08:50 PM

Apr 2020

these cranial comparisons. As the article points out, some variations might be due to generic drift after arrival in the Americas. There can be cranial diversity within a homogenous group.

mtDNA or NRY DNA haplogroups would be better indicators of diversity or commonly shared ancestral origins, although haplogroups leave out a portion of ancestral DNA.

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