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With the emergence of what has been called genetic anthropology or anthropological genetics since the early 1950s, the traditional interest of physical anthropologists in human population affinities has persisted. The older paradigm of racial classification has, however, been largely replaced by other models. These include the use of branching tree models called dendrograms that graphically represent the general degree of genetic or anthropometric similarity or dissimilarity between populations. Such measures of taxonomic distance mathematically reduce multivariate data on population differences to single measures of the relative degree of difference between pairs of populations.
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Reid, R.M. (1984). Taxonomic Distance and Human Populations of South Asia. In: Lukacs, J.R. (eds) The People of South Asia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5001-7_12
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