Analyses of molecular genetic data have added a new dimension to human evolutionary
research. Pioneering studies of variation in human populations were based on analyses of …

Agradecimentos: a Walter Neves, pelo estímulo e pelas idéias que contribuíram para
melhorar este texto. A Adriana S. Dias, Fabíola A. Silva e Jorge Eremites, pelos comentários …

A problem that has long interested the layman, the scientist, and the philosopher has to do
with how and why civilizations arose. Any hypothesis or generalization about this social …

A total of 63 binary polymorphisms and 10 short tandem repeats (STRs) were genotyped on
a sample of 2,344 Y chromosomes from 18 Native American, 28 Asian, and 5 European …

A decade ago, the first reviews of the collective mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) data from
Native Americans concluded that the Americas were peopled through multiple migrations …

The peopling of the New World has been the focus of anthropological attention since the last
century. Proponents of multiple migration models have claimed that patterns of variation …

The initial peopling of the Americas has proved one of the most challenging episodes in
reconstructing global prehistory, challenging because researchers struggle with the …

The nearly-complete, well-preserved skeleton of a Paleoamerican male was found by
chance near Kennewick, Washington, in 1996. Although analysis was quickly suspended by …

In this study we compare the cranial morphology of several late Paleoindian skeletons
uncovered at Santana do Riacho, Central Brazil, with worldwide human cranial variation …

CG Turner II made dental morphological observations on thousands of Eskimo-Aleuts and
American Indians and concluded they were derived from ancestral populations in northeast …