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In a provocative essay Terrell and Fagan (1975) recently have challenged the premises and the deductions of those involved in human biological research in Melanesia during the last two decades. They claim that little appears to have been achieved in understanding geographic patterns of variation in genetic factors and anthropometrics and conclude that “research problems seem poorly formulated; hypotheses advanced often appear trivial; insufficient attention has been given to nongenetic variables likely to be influencing the growth, maintenance and stability of biological similarities and differences among local and regional populations.”
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Kirk, R.L. (1982). Linguistic, Ecological, and Genetic Differentiation in New Guinea and the Western Pacific. In: Crawford, M.H., Mielke, J.H. (eds) Current Developments in Anthropological Genetics. Advances in Human Genetics, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6769-1_9
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