Southern Mongoloid
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Southern Mongoloid populations are a subgroup of Mongoloid populations, distinguished by older criteria like appearance and craniology, or newer methods like genetics and dental patterns.
In Cavalli-Sforza's genetic clustering work (1988) South Chinese join Southeast Asians while the North Chinese associate with Koreans, Japanese, Ainu, Bhutanese and Tibetans. Other Southeast Asians include Malaysian, Balinese, Viet Muong, Thai, Indonesian and Philippine.
Xiao and Cavalli-Sforza (2000) find the boundary between Northern and Southern Mongoloids to approximate the Yangtze River, and suggest that their ancestors arrived from Africa via separate routes. Principal component analysis of gene frequencies of Chinese populations (http://scienceinchina.com/yk/yc/0005/yc0472.pdf)
Other scientists have suggested that the finding of sharp genetic differences between North and South China is an artifact of using an insufficient number of samples. However, Xiao and Cavalli-Sforza (2000) has a larger number of samples than previous studies.
See also:
- Northern Mongoloid
- Eastern Eurasian
- Sundadont
- Japanese Paleolithic#Paleo-anthropology
- Out of Africa hypothesis
- Caucasoid
- [1] (http://www.peak.org/csfa/mt11-3.html#part2) Timeline for evolution of Mongoloid traits and settlement of the Americas
- [2] (http://home.i1.net/~alchu/hakka/toihak0.htm) Gm markers, the Hakka, and North China vs. South China
- [3] (http://www.ainu-museum.or.jp/english/eng01.html) Theories on origin of the Ainu
