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Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton and mtDNA Link Paleoamericans and Modern Native Americans

Overview of attention for article published in Science, May 2014
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20 blogs
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Title
Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton and mtDNA Link Paleoamericans and Modern Native Americans
Published in
Science, May 2014
DOI 10.1126/science.1252619
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Authors

James C Chatters, Douglas J Kennett, Yemane Asmerom, Brian M Kemp, Victor Polyak, Alberto Nava Blank, Patricia A Beddows, Eduard Reinhardt, Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, Deborah A Bolnick, Ripan S Malhi, Brendan J Culleton, Pilar Luna Erreguerena, Dominique Rissolo, Shanti Morell-Hart, Thomas W Stafford

Abstract

Because of differences in craniofacial morphology and dentition between the earliest American skeletons and modern Native Americans, separate origins have been postulated for them, despite genetic evidence to the contrary. We describe a near-complete human skeleton with an intact cranium and preserved DNA found with extinct fauna in a submerged cave on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. This skeleton dates to between 13,000 and 12,000 calendar years ago and has Paleoamerican craniofacial characteristics and a Beringian-derived mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup (D1). Thus, the differences between Paleoamericans and Native Americans probably resulted from in situ evolution rather than separate ancestry.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 8 3%
Mexico 4 2%
Canada 3 1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Chile 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Argentina 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 241 92%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 65 25%
Researcher 55 21%
Student > Master 27 10%
Student > Bachelor 25 10%
Professor 18 7%
Other 49 19%
Unknown 24 9%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 90 34%
Social Sciences 35 13%
Arts and Humanities 29 11%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 24 9%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 20 8%
Other 33 13%
Unknown 32 12%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 897. 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 29 January 2024.
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#19,543
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#939
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#92
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#7
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