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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cass/: [QB] Some of Dienekes’ Mahalanobis distance estimates are wrong, they're even contradicted by Howells' (1973, 1989, 1995) monographs [that I used to own]. For example, Howells (1973) clearly has Zulu, Dogon and Teita ("Negroids") a lot closer on his craniometric dendogram to Bushmen, when compared to East Asian populations. The Australian aborigine anomaly is well known. I've already addressed it before - lack of skull measurements. Howells always used a high number of metric variables as a standard in his work on craniometry (57), but his measurements went up to 80 in some instances. One of the measurements not often included in his work is now known to be highly diagnostic when distinguishing Australo-Melanesian populations like Tolai from "Negroid" (e.g. Zulu) skulls: "one character (glabella projection) showed a strong bimodality with respect to African and Melanesians with better than 90% accuracy, which would [b]very likely clear up the Zulu-Tolai confusion[/b]" (Sarich, 1997). And I can provide several studies demonstrating the correlation between craniometrics and geographical distance (isolation-by-distance): * Wright, R. V. (1992). "Correlation between Cranial Form and Geography in Homo Sapiens: CRANID - A Computer Program for Forensic and Other Applications. [i]Archaeology in Oceania[/i]. 27(3): 128-134. * Relethford, J. (2004). "Global patterns of isolation by distance based on genetic and morphological data". [i]Hum[/i]. [i]Biol[/i]. 76: 499–513. "Under a linear IBD model, geographic distance between pairs of populations is a good predictor of phenotypic differentiation in males as well as in females...IBD proved a very good predictor of between-populations phenotypic differentiation, confirming Relethford’s findings on a smaller dataset (2004)... Climatic variables had much weaker explanatory power than geographic distance and, more importantly, their role was much reduced once we accounted for the underlaying IBD pattern." ([URL=http://www.academia.edu/223475/The_Relative_Role_of_Drift_and_Selection_in_Shaping_the_Human_Skull]Betti et al. 2010[/URL]) "The results presented here indicate a strong relation-ship between cranial morphology and geographic distance, similar to that found by Relethford (2004)." ( [URL=http://www.academia.edu/6917561/Climate_Signatures_in_the_Morphological_Differentiation_of_Worldwide_Modern_Human_Populations]Hubbe et al. 2009)[/URL] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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