Postmarital residence and within-sex genetic diversity among the Urubu-Ka'apor Indians, Brazilian Amazon.

Abstract excerpt

The analysis of biologic variation in prehistoric human populations separately by sex has been used as a tool to recover post-marital residential rules. These studies, which focus on the sexual distribution of skeletal traits, assume that the degree of intragroup or intergroup biologic diversity is higher in one sex with regard to unilocality (uxori- or virilocality). Despite a recent attempt to interpret this...

Topics

• Brazil
• Emigration and Immigration
• Female
• Genetic Carrier Screening
• Genetic Variation
• Humans
• Indians, South American
• Male
• Marriage
• Models, Genetic
• Residence Characteristics
• Sex Factors