U.S.-China Cooperative Research: Craniofacial Form in Relation to Prehistoric and Modern Populations in Asia

拟议合作项目的目标是测试 史前和史前的形态学关系 中国各地的现代人口。 意图 是为了观察局部的颅面形态 现代中国人群的不同之处在于， 或多或少，就像现代中国人在一个 与新石器时代的祖先不同， 中国其他地区也是如此。 协调 人口历史和考古记录 从中国的一个地区到另一个地区的运动，与 从过去和现在的欧洲收集的数据 人口，并认为在数据的角度来看， 收集美洲印第安人的样本，这应该给一个规模， 测量非自适应形态变化的速率 穿越时空 最终，这将使调查人员 我们花了多长时间 智人的主要区域种群之间 开发 该项目涉及与中国研究所的合作 收藏品所在的考古博物馆 这 合作是项目成功的关键， 可以产生一种长期的合作方式来研究 其他中国收藏品， 美国科学家。

The objective of the proposed cooperative project is to test the morphological relationships between the prehistoric and modern populations in the various parts of China. The intent is to see whether the craniofacial morphology of regionally identified modern Chinese populations differs to the same -- or to a greater or lesser -- degree as modern Chinese in a given area differ from their Neolithic antecedents in the same as well as in other parts of China. Coordinated with the historical and archaeological record of population movements from one part of China to another, compared with previously collected data from past and present European populations, and considered in the perspective of data to be gathered on Amerindian samples, this should give a scale for measuring the rate of non-adaptive morphological change through time. Ultimately this will allow the investigators to say just how long it has taken for the various differences between the major regional populations of Homo sapiens to have developed. This project involves collaboration with the Chinese Institute of Archaeology where the collections are housed. This collaboration is critical to the success of the project and could yield a longer term collaborative approach to studying other Chinese collections which have been largely unavailable to US scientists.