中国与非洲近代-现代人类某些颅骨特征的对比及其意义--中国与非洲人类头骨特征对比之二

对近代—现代非洲和中国人群26项颅骨特征的观测和分析显示非洲人具有一些显示其特异性的颅骨特征，但多数特征的表现与东亚人类非常接近，提示现代人群体质特征的趋同性。作者认为非洲人在多数颅骨特征的表现方式上较中国人更为多样化，表明现代非洲人群在体质特征的表现上较东亚人类具有更宽广的形态变异谱。作者基于许多东亚、欧洲及澳洲人类的颅骨特征在非洲人群具有较高的出现率或明显的表现等现象提出一些未来研究中有待解决的问题。

THE COMPARISONS OF CRANIAL FEATURES BETWEEN CHINESE AND AFRICAN HOLOCENE HUMANS, AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS

cranial features of Holocene African and Chinese skulls were observed and analyzed. Our results show that even though some feature seem to characterize African humans, the expression patterns of most cranial features used in present study resemble those of East Asian humans very much, which may suggest the similar trends of the characteristics of modern humans. We also found that more variations of cranial features occur in African human skulls than those of Chinese. The authors believe that these differences between African and Chinese indicate the physical characteristics of African humans have wider variation ranges than those of East Asian populations. According to the high frequencies of some East Asian, European and Australian cranial features in African humans found in present study, the authors proposed some problems to be solved in future studies.