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 Mark W. Braun, MD
 braunm@indiana.edu

 
   Mechanisms of Human Disease 
    The Plight of Native Americans and European Conquest
 

 
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Week 1: Peopling the Americas
  • Randy Newman's overview
  • Out of Africa
    • Y-chromosome
    • Mitochondrial DNA
    • Skull morphology
  • Genetics
    • Homogeneity
    • Founder size and bottle neck
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It's all online reading this week, click here:

  • Randy Newman,  PDF of the lyrics
  • Fagan: Ancient North America, Ch 4
  • PBS Special (movie clip),
  • Bortolini: Y-Chromosome Evidence..
  • Brace: Old World Sources.....
  • Eshleman: Mitochondrial DNA.....

 Week 2

 
 
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