posted 03 March 2005 07:49 AM            

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Originally posted by rasol:
your deafening silence....i'm horse from laughing out loud at your million and one lame excuses for 'negroid' traits found in your TRANSPARENTLY FAKE medit type B.284x4-FIB-AS-FAST-AS-YOU-CAN caucazoid catagories.

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If you have some sort of evidence against Angel's Caucasoid Type B or the unreliability of HLA-DRB1, now would be the time to offer it. Otherwise, shut the f*ck up.

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Have you* found * any * answers?

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posted 03 March 2005 07:48 PM            

http://www.paleoanthro.org/abst2000.htm

Implications of dental morphology for population affinity among Late Pleistocene and recent humans

Shara E. Bailey
Department of Anthropology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-2402

Decades of research have shown that comparative dental morphology is a useful method for determining population affinities among recent humans. Recent studies of Plio-Pleistocene hominids have shown that it is also a sensitive indicator of phylogeny. In comparison, systematic research on the dental morphology of Neandertals and other Late Pleistocene hominids is just beginning.

It is well documented that Neandertals exhibit unusual dental traits (e.g. taurodontism). Previous authors (Bailey and Turner, Irish, Stringer, Tyrell and Chamberlain) have confirmed that the overall dental pattern of Neandertals is also distinctive. Based on phenetic distance measures, outgroup analysis, and genetic affinity analysis, they have rejected the hypothesis of continuity between Neandertals and modern humans. With one exception (Bailey and Turner, 1999) these conclusions have been based on Krapina Neandertals and extant modern human populations.

The present study uses analyses of Mean Measure of Divergence (MMD) to assess the affinities of 11 populations representing early Anatomically Modern Humans, Upper Paleolithic Europeans, Recent modern humans and Neandertals.

The 17-trait MMD analysis demonstrates that, dentally, Neandertals are quite divergent from all modern humans. The results of cluster analyses based on MMD values suggest two major clusters: Neandertals and modern humans. The data also suggest two sub-clusters within the modern human cluster. One links Upper Paleolithic Europeans with recent North Africans and Europeans. The other links early Anatomically Modern Humans with Late Pleistocene Africans and recent Sub-Saharan Africans.

These results do not support either biological continuity or significant admixture between Neandertals and Upper Paleolithic Europeans. However, they do not disprove that some degree of admixture may have occurred. The results showing a close affinity between early Anatomically Modern Humans and Sub-Saharan Africans are consistent with the Recent African Origin model for modern human origins.