Skull Similarities Suggest Multiple Migrations into South America (1 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Skull Similarities Suggest Multiple Migrations into South America (1 of 4)

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Paleoamerican skull from Burial 1, Lapa do Santo site, Brazil. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Feb. 22 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by N. von Cramon-Taubadel at University at Buffalo in Buffalo, NY, and colleagues was titled, "Evolutionary population history of early Paleoamerican cranial morphology."

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[Credit: Mauricio de Paiva]

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