Article
Microevolution in lower Central America: genetic characterization of the Chibcha-speaking groups of Costa Rica and Panama, and a consensus taxonomy based on genetic and linguistic affinity.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 1990
Barrantes R, Smouse P E, Mohrenweiser H W, Gershowitz H, Azofeifa J, Arias T D, Neel J V
Abstract excerpt
There is evidence that Amerindians have continuously occupied the lower Central American Isthmus for as long as 10,000 years. There remains some doubt about the relationships of these original colonizers to the resident peoples of this zone at the time of European contact (approximately A.D. 1500...
Topics
- Alleles
- Biological Evolution
- Costa Rica
- Genetic Markers
- Genetics, Population
- Humans
- Indians, Central American
- Language
- Panama
- Phylogeny
- Terminology as Topic