Research Catalog

Title

A re-analysis of the Andrew A. Abbie morphometric data on Australian aborigines / Gabriele Macho and Leonard Freedman.

Author

Macho, Gabriele

Publication

Canberra : Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, 1987.

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Additional Authors

Freedman, L. (Leonard), 1923-2014

Description

80 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

(1) An appraisal of homogeneity; test of Abbies hypothesis of morphological homogeneity in the Australian Aboriginal population; discrimination analysis shows clinal variation from north to south. (2) The influence of climatic factors; found the direct effect of climatic variation to be small in most cases; interorbital breadth and nose shape the most influenced by climatic conditions. (3) An assessment of diversity; a comparison of Abbies regional and tribal samples with Tindales Barriean, Murrayian and Carpentarian groups; analysis shows that the trihybrid population model is not the principal factor explaining modern variation; climatic effects and random genetic drift as primary determinants.

Series Statement

Occasional papers in human biology ; 4

Uniform Title

Occasional papers in human biology 4.

Alternative Title

Reanalysis of the Andrew A Abbie morphometric data on Australian aborigines.

Subject

• Abbie, Andrew Arthur, 1905-1963
• Aboriginal Australians > Anthropometry
• Anthropology, Physical
• Data Interpretation, Statistical
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
• Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. An appraisal of homogeneity -- 2. The influences of climatic factors -- 3. An assessment of diversity.

ISBN

0855751827

OCLC

19982802

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library