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Apr 1 2007, 10:05 AM
Anthropological Characteristics of Korean Crania
Koh, Kiseok
journal name: ?, 122 ~ 130, Vol.23, No.2, 1999

Non-metric Traits of Korean Skulls
Park DK, Lee UY, Lee JH, Choi BY, Koh KS, Kim HJ, Park SJ, Han SH
Korean J Phys Anthropol. 2001 Jun;14(2):117-126. Korean.

It seems that non-metrics relate them more to East Asia's northern neighbors. In that case, Koreans' less robusticity compared to Mongols and Kazakhs may be due to neolithilization or response to warmer temeratures.
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The clustering analysis represented that the facial flatness of Korean crania is closely related to those of the northern Chinese, modern Japanese. However, non-metric dimensions of Korean crania were more closely related to those of Mongol, Kazach.

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The distance analyses (MMD; mean value of divergence) revealed that the Korean are more closely related to the population in Kazach and Mongol than to the population in China and Japan.

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