• DOI:10.3378/027.085.0304
Corpus ID: 32964023

The Skeletal Phenotype of “Negritos” from the Andaman Islands and Philippines Relative to Global Variation among Hunter-Gatherers

@inproceedings{Stock2013TheSP,
  title={The Skeletal Phenotype of “Negritos” from the Andaman Islands and Philippines Relative to Global Variation among Hunter-Gatherers},
  author={J. Stock},
  booktitle={Human biology},
  year={2013}
}

J. Stock

Published in Human biology 2013

Biology, Medicine

Abstract The “negrito hypothesis” suggests that populations of smallbodied foragers in South and Southeast Asia who share common phenotypic characteristics may also share a common, ancient origin. The key defining characteristics of the “negrito” phenotype, small body size, dark skin, and tightly curled hair, have been interpreted as linking these populations to sub-Saharan Africans. The underlying assumption of this interpretation is that the observed phenotypic similarities likely reflect… CONTINUE READING

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