The Origins of Native Americans: Evidence from Anthropological Genetics

by Michael H. Crawford

Book Overview

Who are the Native Americans? When and how did they colonize the New World? What proportion of the biological variation in contemporary Amerindian populations was made in America and what was brought from Siberia? This book is a unique synthesis of the genetic, archaeological, and demographic evidence concerning the Native peoples of the Americas, using case studies from contemporary Amerindian and Siberian indigenous groups to unravel the mysteries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521004101
• ISBN13: 9780521004107
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Genetics

I think the book is absolutely fantastic. Dr. Michael Crawford is a genius. Revelational thinking, not only from a genetic perspective but cultural and archaeological as well, in reference to the human diaspora from africa, and the possibility of several pre-Clovis migrations.