Twenty‐two years ago, Greenberg, Turner and Zegura (Curr. Anthropol. 27,477–495, 1986)
suggested a multidisciplinary model for the human settlement of the New World. Since their …

The current genetic makeup of Latin America has been shaped by a history of extensive
admixture between Africans, Europeans and Native Americans, a process taking place within …

Environmental factors are assumed to play an important role in the shaping of craniofacial
morphology. Here we propose a statistical approach which can be of utility in estimating the …

Masticatory loading is one of the main environmental stimuli that generate craniofacial
variation among recent humans. Experimental studies on a wide variety of mammals, including …

We report a genome-wide association scan in over 6,000 Latin Americans for features of
scalp hair (shape, colour, greying, balding) and facial hair (beard thickness, monobrow, …

Quantitative craniometrical traits have been successfully incorporated into population genetic
methods to provide insight into human population structure. However, little is known about …

Several studies on craniofacial morphology showed that most Paleoindians, who were the
first settlers of the New World, clearly differ from modern Amerindians and East Asians, their …

We report a genome-wide association scan for facial features in ∼6,000 Latin Americans.
We evaluated 14 traits on an ordinal scale and found significant association (P values<5 × 10 …

Historical records and genetic analyses indicate that Latin Americans trace their ancestry
mainly to the intermixing (admixture) of Native Americans, Europeans and Sub-Saharan …

Proportionality of phenotypic and genetic distance is of crucial importance to adequately
focus on population history and structure, and it depends on the proportionality of genetic and …