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Gene geography of South America: Testing models of population displacement based on archeological evidence
Author(s) -
Rothhammer Francisco,
Silva Claudio
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.1330890405
Subject(s) - principal component analysis , archaeology , population , displacement (psychology) , geography , construct (python library) , evolutionary biology , biology , demography , statistics , computer science , mathematics , psychology , sociology , programming language , psychotherapist
Gene frequencies for 13 marker systems are used to construct synthetic gene frequency maps of South America. The surfaces generated using the first three principal components exhibit clines which validate models of population displacement based on archeological data and a previous analysis of craniometrical variation. © 1992 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.