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Multivariate apportionment of global human craniometric diversity

Roseman, Charles C., Weaver, Timothy D.·2004·American Journal of Physical Anthropology
DOI 10.1002/ajpa.10424
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Extensive research in human genetics on presumably neutral loci has shown that the overwhelming majority of human diversity is found among individuals within local populations. Previous apportionments of craniometric diversity are similar to these genetic apportionments, implying that interregionally differing selection pressures have played a limited role in producing contemporary human cranial diversity. Here we show that when cranial variation is independently partitioned using principal components analysis of Mosimann shape variables, some estimates of interregional craniometric differentiation are larger than those for most genetic loci. These estimates are similar to estimates for genetic loci where interregionally differing selection pressures are implicated in producing the observed patterns of variation within and among regions. These results suggest that differences among regions in at least some cranial features, particularly in the nasal region, are in part the product of interregionally differing selection pressures. Moreover, these results have implications for assessing the biological affinities of prehistoric samples that are temporally separated from contemporary human reference populations.

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  • There is substantial nose shape variation among human populations, in both the external morphology of the nose and the underlying cranial morphology.

    “We know there is substantial nose shape variation among human populations, in both the external morphology of the nose as well as the underlying cranial morphology [1,2,9].”

    From Investigating the case of human nose shape and climate adaptation (2017) · cites this paper as [9]

  • Several studies have found that most aspects of the skull seem to be evolving neutrally, while the shape of the nasal aperture appears to be more differentiated across human populations than expected under genetic drift.

    “Several studies have used this approach and found that while most aspects of the skull seem to be evolving neutrally, the shape of the nasal aperture appears to be more differentiated across human populations than expected under genetic drift [9,12,13].”

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Authors
Roseman, C. C., & Weaver, T. D.
Affiliations
  • Stanford University (US)
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
Corresponding author
Roseman, Charles C.
ORCID
Venue
American Journal of Physical Anthropology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2004-03-26
Volume
125
Issue
3
Pages
257-263
ISSN
  • 0002-9483 (ISSN-L)
  • 1096-8644
DOI
10.1002/ajpa.10424
OpenAlex
W2164860460
Cited by
236
References
44
Citations by year
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FWCI
9.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations
  • American Journal of Physical Anthropology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Geometry and Topology › Morphological variations and asymmetry
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
Keywords
craniometric variation, interregional differentiation, natural selection, nasal region, biological affinity
MeSH terms
Cephalometry, Humans, Skull, Genetic Variation, Multivariate Analysis

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