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A Microevolutional History of the Japanese People from a Dental Characteristics Perspective.
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In an effort to demonstrate the microevolutional history of the Japanese populations from the viewpoint of dental morphology, metrical and nonmetrical crown traits were investigated for eight population samples from various periods in Japan, extending from the prehistoric Jomon period to the present. The results were compared with those found in other East Asian populations, to clarify the question of the ancestry of the Japanese populations. Several statistical analyses on metrical and nonmetrical traits demonstrated that the modern Japanese populations were descended from two major groups. One group is the indigenous prehistoric Jomon people, which was ancestral to the modern Ainu. The second group is the Aeneolithic Yayoi immigrants from the Asian Continent, which passed into the post-Yayoi Japanese. Relative tooth size and most nonmetrical traits are quite stable throughout the two microevolutionary lineages from the Jomon to the Ainu and from the Yayoi to the post-Yayoi Japanese.
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“In contrast to the immigrant-type Yayoi people from the Northern Kyushu region, who exhibit facial flatness; the craniofacial traits of the Hirota people are similar to those of “indigenous Jomon” and Ainu people, who display a prominent glabella and a strong elevated nasal ridge.”
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- Authors
- MATSUMURA, H.
- Affiliations
- Department of Anthropology, National Science Museum
- Corresponding author
- MATSUMURA, HIROFUMI
- ORCID
- MATSUMURA, HIROFUMI
- Venue
- Anthropological Science
- Publisher
- Anthropological Society of Nippon
- Published
- 1994
- Volume
- 102
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 93-118
- ISSN
- 0918-7960 (ISSN-L)
- 1348-8570
- OpenAlex
- W2028116491
- Cited by
- 80
- References
- 40
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 4 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 40.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Anthropological Science (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Academia Sinica
- Mahidol University
- National Taiwan University
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (03041102, 04454034)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Keywords
- dental morphology, microevolution, Jomon period, Yayoi period, Ainu, East Asian ancestry, tooth size, prehistoric humans
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