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Morphological composition of the people of India
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In this paper, the spatial and temporal aspects of human morphological variation in India are discussed, and four morphological types (Australoids, Negritos, Mongoloids and Caucasoids) have been discerned in the contemporary Indian population.About:
This article is published in Journal of Human Evolution.The article was published on 1978-01-01. It has received 53 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Endogamy.read more
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Genomic and Gene Diversity among the People of the Indian Subcontinent
TL;DR: The early history of the Indian Subcontinent is like a jigsaw puzzle with many missing pieces as mentioned in this paper, and there is enough anthropological and archaeological evidence to show that from time immemorial people of many different ethnic stocks, cultures and languages have inhabited India and contributed to the present day gene pool of the subcontinent.
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Ethnic Variation in Interfinger Correlation of Ridge Counts: Fresh Data From India
K. C. Malhotra,B. M. Reddy +1 more
TL;DR: Hereditary and environmental determinants of growth in height in a longitudinal sample of children and youth of Guatemalan and European ancestry and in a multinational Andean Genetic and Health Program.
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Development of typological classification and its relationship to microdifferentiation in ethnic India.
K C Malhotra,T. S. Vasulu +1 more
TL;DR: The history of the racial classification of the people of India can be looked at in three temporal phases: at the national level, the initial studies of racial classification attempted along with the Census of India; at the regional level, studies by anthropologists and statisticians following systematic sampling and statistical procedures were conducted after the initial national-level studies.
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Genetic Polymorphism of Six DNA Loci in Six Population Groups of India
Shazia Ahmad,M. Seshadri +1 more
TL;DR: The extent of diversity found among the populations probably resulted from the strict endogamous practices that they follow, and conforms with the cultural and linguistic background of the populations.
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Gene diversity for haptoglobin and transferrin classical markers among Hindu and Muslim populations of Aligarh city, India
TL;DR: It has been concluded that there is a high genetic differentiation of populations within Hindu and Muslim groups, though there is absence of any significant differences between these groups.
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