Taxonomic congruence in Eskimoid populations
Abstract The study compares distance relationships in Eskimoid populations based on metric and attribute data with linguistic relationships based on structural and lexicostatistical data. Taxonomic congruence and the non‐specificity hypothesis are investigated by matrix correlations and by a cluster...
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crwiley:10.1002/ajpa.1330430213 2024-06-02T08:06:11+00:00 Taxonomic congruence in Eskimoid populations Zegura, Stephen L. 1975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330430213 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fajpa.1330430213 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajpa.1330430213 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor American Journal of Physical Anthropology volume 43, issue 2, page 271-284 ISSN 0002-9483 1096-8644 journal-article 1975 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330430213 2024-05-03T11:37:20Z Abstract The study compares distance relationships in Eskimoid populations based on metric and attribute data with linguistic relationships based on structural and lexicostatistical data. Taxonomic congruence and the non‐specificity hypothesis are investigated by matrix correlations and by a clustering procedure. The matrix correlation approaches employed are the Pearson product‐moment correlation coefficient and the Spearman rank‐order correlation coefficient. An unweighted pair‐group clustering procedure provides a visual comparison of biological and linguistic relationships. Data consist of 74 craniometric measurements and 28 cranial observations taken on 12 Eskimoid populations. Mahalanobis' D 2 and Balakrishnan and Sanghvi's B 2 were used to compute the metric and attribute distances, respectively. The results indicate that a strict adherence to the non‐specificity hypothesis is untenable. Also, there is better concordance between the sexes for metric distances than for attribute distances, and the metric data are more concordant with linguistic relationships than are the attribute data. Article in Journal/Newspaper eskimo* Wiley Online Library American Journal of Physical Anthropology 43 2 271 284 |
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Abstract The study compares distance relationships in Eskimoid populations based on metric and attribute data with linguistic relationships based on structural and lexicostatistical data. Taxonomic congruence and the non‐specificity hypothesis are investigated by matrix correlations and by a clustering procedure. The matrix correlation approaches employed are the Pearson product‐moment correlation coefficient and the Spearman rank‐order correlation coefficient. An unweighted pair‐group clustering procedure provides a visual comparison of biological and linguistic relationships. Data consist of 74 craniometric measurements and 28 cranial observations taken on 12 Eskimoid populations. Mahalanobis' D 2 and Balakrishnan and Sanghvi's B 2 were used to compute the metric and attribute distances, respectively. The results indicate that a strict adherence to the non‐specificity hypothesis is untenable. Also, there is better concordance between the sexes for metric distances than for attribute distances, and the metric data are more concordant with linguistic relationships than are the attribute data. |
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