William S Pollitzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 82163 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William S Pollitzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | William S |
| FAMILY NAME | Pollitzer |
| SIGNATURE | POLLITZER W S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Gullah People and Their African Heritage
Ancestral proportions and admixture dynamics in geographically defined African Americans living in South Carolina
We analyzed admixture in samples of six different African-American populations from South Carolina: Gullah-speaking Sea Islanders in coastal South Carolina, residents of four counties in the "Low Country" (Berkeley, Charleston, Colleton, and Dorchester), and persons living in the city of Columbia, located in central South Carolina. We used a battery of highly informative autosomal, mtDNA, and Y-chromosome markers. Two of the autosomal markers (FY…
Admixture and relationships of the population of Jacobina, Bahia, Brazil
As part of the Cornell-Bahia project on leishmaniasis, the people of Jacobina in the state of Bahia in northeastern Brazil were studied for five genetic polymorphisms: ABO blood groups, hemoglobin variants, PGM1, 6PGD, and adenylate kinase. A maximum likelihood method of calculation of frequency of genes for these traits indicates that the ancestry of the people is 45% African, 43% Portuguese, and 12% Brazilian Indian. This estimate is similar to…
Admixture and relationships of the population of Jacobina, Bahia, Brazil
As part of the Cornell-Bahia project on leishmaniasis, the people of Jacobina in the state of Bahia in northeastern Brazil were studied for five genetic polymorphisms: ABO blood groups, hemoglobin variants, PGM1, 6PGD, and adenylate kinase. A maximum likelihood method of calculation of frequency of genes for these traits indicates that the ancestry of the people is 45% African, 43% Portuguese, and 12% Brazilian Indian. This estimate is similar to…
Obituary: James A. Gavan (1916–1994)
God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World . Christopher P. Tourney
Ethnicity and human biology
Stanley Garn's book, Human Races (1965), captured the essence of the new genetic concept of ethnic groups as populations which share the same gene pool, shaped by natural selection. Since then new genetic traits, especially DNA polymorphisms, have been employed to build upon his vision. They have proven useful in the forensic sciences, medicine, and the human biology of adaptation, migration, evolution, and phylogeny. Some diseases like sickle ce…
The Relationship of the Gullah-Speaking People of Coastal South Carolina and Georgia to Their African Ancestors
Frequencies of Hemoglobin Variants . Frank B. Livingstone
Two views of natural selection and evolution
Ho, Mae‐Wan, and Peter Saunders, eds. Beyond Neo‐Darwinism: An Introduction to the New Evolutionary Paradigm. London: Academic Press, 1984. xiv + 376 pp. including illustrations, author and subject indices, and chapter references. $40.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. Sober, Elliott. The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984. x + 383 pp. including references and author and subject indices. $25.00 cloth,…
Physical: (A Topical Guide to the American Journal of Physical Anthropology: Volumes 22–53 1964–1980) . M. Yasar Isçan
Taxonomic note: Bunopithecus : A genus‐level taxon for the hoolock gibbon ( Hylobates hoolock )
The recent discovery that the hoolock gibbon ( Hylobates hoolock [Harlan, 1834]) has a karyotype distinct from all other hylobatids provides a new and strong motive for revising gibbon taxonomy and establishing hoolocks in a separate, higher taxon. Revising Groves's taxonomy of 1972, we propose that hoolock , along with the fossil species sericus , occupy a subgenus, Bunopithecus . With the newly added taxon, the genus Hylobates would thus contai…
The development of genetics and population studies
The contribution of genetics and population studies to physical anthropology as reflected in the pages of our Journal is traced since its establishment in 1918. Major trends include the use of more genetic polymorphisms, the search for natural selection and genetic drift, the unraveling of population structure in a wide variety of ecological niches, and the recognition of the role of culture in human biology. Nonhuman primates have also been expl…
Evolution and special creation
The Cajuns of Southern Alabama: Morphology and serology
A survey was conducted of 324 members of the Cajun isolate of Southern Alabama. Tradition and appearance suggest that this population of about 3,000 are not entirely White, Black, or Indian but constitute a triracial community somewhat reproductively isolated and inbred. The earliest American settlement in the area, along the banks of the Mobile and Tombigbee Rivers, lay between Spaniards to the South and Indian tribes on the other sides: Creek, …
New Evidence for a Late Introduction of Malaria into the New World [and Comments and Reply]
New evidence is offered to strengthen the case for a post-Conquest introduction of malaria into the New World. An investigation of human physiological factors influencing host selection by malaria vectors revealed a strong preference by Anopheles gambiae for human hosts with blood-group O. The unique, overwhelming group-O frequency present among indigenous American populations is seen as a result of mother-child ABO incompatibility effects operat…
Louis S. B. Leakey 1903–1972
Physical: The Assessment of Population Affinities in Man. J. S. Weiner and J. Huizinga
The Physical Anthropology and Genetics of Marginal People of the Southeastern United States1
Admixture of White, Negro, and Indian peoples of the Southeastern United States from colonial days on has led to some unique populations isolated by social status. In time they formed distinctive gene pools. On the basis of physical traits and serological factors, it has been possible to reconstruct the approximate genetic contribution of parental populations to the hybrid ones. Some inherited diseases have also been concentrated in these isolate…
Serendipity in St. Helena: A Genetical and Medical Study of an Isolated Community . IAN SHINE
The Seminole Indians of Florida: Morphology and serology
The Seminole Indians of Florida were studied on their three reservations for blood types, red cell enzymes, serum proteins, physical measurements, and relationships. Both serologic and morphologic factors suggest their close similarity to other Indians and small amount of admixture. The Florida Seminoles are similar to Cherokee “full‐bloods” in their absence of Rho and their incidence of O and M. In the presence of Di a they are similar to other …
Ancestral traits, parental populations, and hybrids
The distance traveled over the centuries by any human population is a rocky road; the fusion of the paths of two meandering populations often leads to an even rougher one. Tracing such a wayward child of history back to its long‐lost parents presents complex problems for the physical anthropologist. For those parents may share unequally in their legacy to their offspring at the start of the journey. Many genes may disappear into the gutters of ge…
Catawba Indians: Morphology, genetics, and history
The Catawba Indians of South Carolina appear to be descendants of the once flourishing Siouan tribe now admixed primarily with Whites of the area. Study of physical traits and blood types was made in 1962 at the time they terminated reservation status. The data permit comparisions with other populations and an estimation of the genetic contribution of presumed parental populations to the hybrid. Skeletal remains of Siouan Indians from archeologic…
Blood factors and morphology of the Negroes of James Island, Charleston, S. C
Hemoglobins, Haptoglobins, and Transferrins in Man
The Negroes of Charleston (S. C.); a study of hemoglobin types, serology, and morphology
Blood types of the Cherokee Indians
Aging Medicine is an open access journal for international collaboration in multiple research disciplines across the aging sciences. The American Journal of Biological Anthropology is a physical anthropology publication, accepting evolutionary articles in bioarcheology, human & primate biology, & more
The Seminole Indians of Florida: Morphology and serology
The Seminole Indians of Florida were studied on their three reservations for blood types, red cell enzymes, serum proteins, physical measurements, and relationships. Both serologic and morphologic factors suggest their close similarity to other Indians and small amount of admixture. The Florida Seminoles are similar to Cherokee “full‐bloods” in their absence of Rho and their incidence of O and M. In the presence of Di a they are similar to other …
The Relationship of the Gullah-Speaking People of Coastal South Carolina and Georgia to Their African Ancestors
Catawba Indians: Morphology, genetics, and history
The Catawba Indians of South Carolina appear to be descendants of the once flourishing Siouan tribe now admixed primarily with Whites of the area. Study of physical traits and blood types was made in 1962 at the time they terminated reservation status. The data permit comparisions with other populations and an estimation of the genetic contribution of presumed parental populations to the hybrid. Skeletal remains of Siouan Indians from archeologic…
Blood factors and morphology of the Negroes of James Island, Charleston, S. C
New Evidence for a Late Introduction of Malaria into the New World [and Comments and Reply]
New evidence is offered to strengthen the case for a post-Conquest introduction of malaria into the New World. An investigation of human physiological factors influencing host selection by malaria vectors revealed a strong preference by Anopheles gambiae for human hosts with blood-group O. The unique, overwhelming group-O frequency present among indigenous American populations is seen as a result of mother-child ABO incompatibility effects operat…
The Physical Anthropology and Genetics of Marginal People of the Southeastern United States1
Admixture of White, Negro, and Indian peoples of the Southeastern United States from colonial days on has led to some unique populations isolated by social status. In time they formed distinctive gene pools. On the basis of physical traits and serological factors, it has been possible to reconstruct the approximate genetic contribution of parental populations to the hybrid ones. Some inherited diseases have also been concentrated in these isolate…
The development of genetics and population studies
The contribution of genetics and population studies to physical anthropology as reflected in the pages of our Journal is traced since its establishment in 1918. Major trends include the use of more genetic polymorphisms, the search for natural selection and genetic drift, the unraveling of population structure in a wide variety of ecological niches, and the recognition of the role of culture in human biology. Nonhuman primates have also been expl…
On reactions of plant anti‐N with red cells of chimpanzees and other animals
The Cajuns of Southern Alabama: Morphology and serology
A survey was conducted of 324 members of the Cajun isolate of Southern Alabama. Tradition and appearance suggest that this population of about 3,000 are not entirely White, Black, or Indian but constitute a triracial community somewhat reproductively isolated and inbred. The earliest American settlement in the area, along the banks of the Mobile and Tombigbee Rivers, lay between Spaniards to the South and Indian tribes on the other sides: Creek, …
Hemoglobins, Haptoglobins, and Transferrins in Man
Ancestral traits, parental populations, and hybrids
The distance traveled over the centuries by any human population is a rocky road; the fusion of the paths of two meandering populations often leads to an even rougher one. Tracing such a wayward child of history back to its long‐lost parents presents complex problems for the physical anthropologist. For those parents may share unequally in their legacy to their offspring at the start of the journey. Many genes may disappear into the gutters of ge…
Blood types and anthropometry of the Kalmuck Mongols
On reactions of plant anti‐N with red cells of chimpanzees and other animals
The Henshaw blood factor in New York city Negroes
The Negroes of Charleston (S. C.); a study of hemoglobin types, serology, and morphology
Blood types and anthropometry of the Kalmuck Mongols
Blood types of the Cherokee Indians
Aging Medicine is an open access journal for international collaboration in multiple research disciplines across the aging sciences. The American Journal of Biological Anthropology is a physical anthropology publication, accepting evolutionary articles in bioarcheology, human & primate biology, & more
Hemoglobins, Haptoglobins, and Transferrins in Man
Blood factors and morphology of the Negroes of James Island, Charleston, S. C
Catawba Indians: Morphology, genetics, and history
The Catawba Indians of South Carolina appear to be descendants of the once flourishing Siouan tribe now admixed primarily with Whites of the area. Study of physical traits and blood types was made in 1962 at the time they terminated reservation status. The data permit comparisions with other populations and an estimation of the genetic contribution of presumed parental populations to the hybrid. Skeletal remains of Siouan Indians from archeologic…
Ancestral traits, parental populations, and hybrids
The distance traveled over the centuries by any human population is a rocky road; the fusion of the paths of two meandering populations often leads to an even rougher one. Tracing such a wayward child of history back to its long‐lost parents presents complex problems for the physical anthropologist. For those parents may share unequally in their legacy to their offspring at the start of the journey. Many genes may disappear into the gutters of ge…
The Seminole Indians of Florida: Morphology and serology
The Seminole Indians of Florida were studied on their three reservations for blood types, red cell enzymes, serum proteins, physical measurements, and relationships. Both serologic and morphologic factors suggest their close similarity to other Indians and small amount of admixture. The Florida Seminoles are similar to Cherokee “full‐bloods” in their absence of Rho and their incidence of O and M. In the presence of Di a they are similar to other …
Serendipity in St. Helena: A Genetical and Medical Study of an Isolated Community . IAN SHINE
The Physical Anthropology and Genetics of Marginal People of the Southeastern United States1
Admixture of White, Negro, and Indian peoples of the Southeastern United States from colonial days on has led to some unique populations isolated by social status. In time they formed distinctive gene pools. On the basis of physical traits and serological factors, it has been possible to reconstruct the approximate genetic contribution of parental populations to the hybrid ones. Some inherited diseases have also been concentrated in these isolate…
Louis S. B. Leakey 1903–1972
Physical: The Assessment of Population Affinities in Man. J. S. Weiner and J. Huizinga
New Evidence for a Late Introduction of Malaria into the New World [and Comments and Reply]
New evidence is offered to strengthen the case for a post-Conquest introduction of malaria into the New World. An investigation of human physiological factors influencing host selection by malaria vectors revealed a strong preference by Anopheles gambiae for human hosts with blood-group O. The unique, overwhelming group-O frequency present among indigenous American populations is seen as a result of mother-child ABO incompatibility effects operat…
The Cajuns of Southern Alabama: Morphology and serology
A survey was conducted of 324 members of the Cajun isolate of Southern Alabama. Tradition and appearance suggest that this population of about 3,000 are not entirely White, Black, or Indian but constitute a triracial community somewhat reproductively isolated and inbred. The earliest American settlement in the area, along the banks of the Mobile and Tombigbee Rivers, lay between Spaniards to the South and Indian tribes on the other sides: Creek, …
Evolution and special creation
The development of genetics and population studies
The contribution of genetics and population studies to physical anthropology as reflected in the pages of our Journal is traced since its establishment in 1918. Major trends include the use of more genetic polymorphisms, the search for natural selection and genetic drift, the unraveling of population structure in a wide variety of ecological niches, and the recognition of the role of culture in human biology. Nonhuman primates have also been expl…
Taxonomic note: Bunopithecus : A genus‐level taxon for the hoolock gibbon ( Hylobates hoolock )
The recent discovery that the hoolock gibbon ( Hylobates hoolock [Harlan, 1834]) has a karyotype distinct from all other hylobatids provides a new and strong motive for revising gibbon taxonomy and establishing hoolocks in a separate, higher taxon. Revising Groves's taxonomy of 1972, we propose that hoolock , along with the fossil species sericus , occupy a subgenus, Bunopithecus . With the newly added taxon, the genus Hylobates would thus contai…
Physical: (A Topical Guide to the American Journal of Physical Anthropology: Volumes 22–53 1964–1980) . M. Yasar Isçan
Frequencies of Hemoglobin Variants . Frank B. Livingstone
Two views of natural selection and evolution
Ho, Mae‐Wan, and Peter Saunders, eds. Beyond Neo‐Darwinism: An Introduction to the New Evolutionary Paradigm. London: Academic Press, 1984. xiv + 376 pp. including illustrations, author and subject indices, and chapter references. $40.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. Sober, Elliott. The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984. x + 383 pp. including references and author and subject indices. $25.00 cloth,…
The Relationship of the Gullah-Speaking People of Coastal South Carolina and Georgia to Their African Ancestors
Ethnicity and human biology
Stanley Garn's book, Human Races (1965), captured the essence of the new genetic concept of ethnic groups as populations which share the same gene pool, shaped by natural selection. Since then new genetic traits, especially DNA polymorphisms, have been employed to build upon his vision. They have proven useful in the forensic sciences, medicine, and the human biology of adaptation, migration, evolution, and phylogeny. Some diseases like sickle ce…
Obituary: James A. Gavan (1916–1994)
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