First Americans

"Who were the first Americans? What is their relationship to living native peoples in the Americas? What do their remains tell us of the current concepts of racial variation, and short-term evolutionary change and adaptation. The First Americans explores these questions by using racial classifications and microevolutionary techniques to better understand who colonized the Americas and how. It will be required reading for all those interested in anthropology, and the history and archaeology of the earliest Americans."--Jacket.

Nuclear DNA founder effect and New World mutations.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments ; Prologue The Kennewick controversy ; THE NATIVE AMERICAN GRAVES PROTECTION AND REPATRIATION ACT; THE KENNEWICK SAGA; KENNEWICK REVISITED?; NOTES; PART I Race and variation; 1 Debating the origins of Native Americans ; 1.1 EARLY EUROPEAN THOUGHT ON NATIVE AMERICAN ORIGINS; 1.2 SCHOLARLY THOUGHT 1492-1729; Acosta's views (1590/1940); García's views (1607); European progenitors?; Asian origins and connections (1729-1790).

1.3 THE AMERICAN PALEOLITHIC (1892-1927)1.4 PATTERN AND PROCESS IN THE PEOPLING OF THE NEW WORLD; Native American biological homogeneity: migrationist views; Amerindian heterogeneity: in situ evolution; NOTES; 2 A brief history of race ; 2.1 THE FOUNDATIONS OF RACE; Race, variety, and species; 2.2 EIGHTEENTH -CENTURY RACIAL CLASSIFICATION; Samuel George Morton and American views of race; The Smithsonian Institution's Ales Hrdlička; 2.3 RACE IN EARLY-TWENTIETH-CENTURY BIOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; Hooton and the races of Pecos Pueblo.

Franz Boas and the New York immigrants2.4 COON'S RACES AND ECO-GEOGRAPHIC VARIATION; Mongoloids; Phenotypic features; Cranial features; Congoids (full-sized); Phenotypic feat…