Phenotypic Evolution: A Reaction Norm Perspective

✍ Scribed by Weiss, Kenneth M.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 19 KB
• Volume: 109
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-9483
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-8644(199905)109:1<144::aid-ajpa12>3.0.co;2-m

✦ Synopsis

the use of small samples for research (see Chapter 4 and p. 228) and probably stands out because of the recent media attention to Paleoindians. The chapters on demography are focused more on classic research in paleodemography and population history than on more recent work, and there is no discussion of mtDNA mismatch and intermatch distributions, which could provide evidence to support the notion of a demic expansion of early populations in the Americas.

Overall, The Origins of Native Americans: Evidence from Anthropological Genetics provides an extremely useful and insightful examination of Native American biology. The volume will certainly be of interest to those outside the field of anthropological genetics and should serve as a reference work for those in the field. The breadth of this work and Crawford's ability to use Native American biology to illustrate important evolutionary concepts make this an excellent addition to the bookshelves of those working with past or present populations of the Americas.