Most evolutionary explanations for cranial differences between Neandertals and modern
humans emphasize adaptation by natural selection. Features of the crania of Neandertals …

Recent research has shown that genetic drift may have produced many cranial differences
between Neandertals and modern humans. If this is the case, then it should be possible to …

Objectives This study assesses the extent to which relationships among groups complicate
comparative studies of adaptation in recent human cranial variation and the extent to which …

This comparison of morphological and neutral genetic variation in 10 human populations
was designed to test a neutral hypothesis of cranial evolution in living and recent humans …

The Neanderthal taxonomic position is a matter of wide disagreement among
paleoanthropologists. Some workers consider this fossil human group to represent a …

Objectives In modern humans, the significant correlation between neutral genetic loci and
cranial anatomy suggests that the cranium preserves a population history signature …

Human populations across the world vary greatly in cranial morphology. It is highly debated
to what extent this variability has accumulated through neutral processes (genetic drift) or …

Recent controversies surrounding models of modern human origins have focused on among‐
group variation, particularly the reconstruction of phylogenetic trees from mitochondrial DNA …

During the late Pleistocene, early anatomically modern humans coexisted in Europe with the
anatomically archaic Neandertals for some thousand years. Under the recent variants of the …

Genetic variation among contemporary human populations has become an important source
of information about the origin of anatomically modern humans (Stringer and Andrews i988) …