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Evolutionary population history of early Paleoamerican cranial morphology

Overview of attention for article published in Science Advances, February 2017
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Title
Evolutionary population history of early Paleoamerican cranial morphology
Published in
Science Advances, February 2017
DOI 10.1126/sciadv.1602289
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Authors

Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel, André Strauss, Mark Hubbe

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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Unknown 85 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 16%
Researcher 13 15%
Student > Master 13 15%
Other 9 11%
Student > Bachelor 8 9%
Other 18 21%
Unknown 10 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 25 29%
Social Sciences 14 16%
Arts and Humanities 9 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 8 9%
Medicine and Dentistry 5 6%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 13 15%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 353. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 September 2022.
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#92,414
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#925
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#2,287
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#15
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