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implications for understanding the later settlement of Japan, the peopling of Polynesia and the Americas, and the explanation of Australian Aboriginal dental morphology, while arguably simplistic, are summarized here. The last half of this chapter (global analysis) which presents the results of three new analyses of dental non-metric traits, apparently for the first time, should be viewed as a ''work-in-progress'' and would have benefited from some ''peer review cleansing'' in a refereed journal before being presented here. Several incredible associations, staunchly defended by the authors, caught this reviewer's eye, such as the placement of Polynesians in the same cluster with Australian Aboriginals, Africans, and Europeans, and one of the biggest oddities, New Guinea's affinity to Western Eurasia rather than with Australians and Melanesians! Given the problems of sampling alluded to earlier, these results may not be so odd. Although limited comparisons with craniometric and genetic data are made, there are no comparisons with odontometric data in this chapter.
Only a few obvious typographical errors were spotted. One unfortunate error occurs on p. 297 where Sangvichien is misspelled and, as far as this reviewer is aware, there are no publications (in English) in 1983 for this researcher.
Overall, this is a well produced and handsome volume on dental anthropology (one of a series in the Cambridge Studies in Biological Anthropology series), which focuses on dental non-metric variation and spotlights the work of Christy Turner II and the ASU dental anthropology program. While flawed, I highly recommend it for dental anthropologists and those interested in human variation.
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