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Kennewick Man may represent a resurgence of some recessive traits leftover from the Americas 'sundadonty days, or may represent an individual of a heretofore unknown isolated remnant population of sundadonts.
What the shit? -- A Bad Archaeology on TV Rant zhukora1 2009
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It's likely that he was descended from a small population of sundadonts (sundadonty being the dentition pattern that was an evolutionary precursor to sinodonty, which developed and still exists in South Asia, aka the Indian Subcontinent), whose ancestors may have migrated into the Americas before the solidification of the traits that comprise sinodonty, and subsequently competed, lived alongside, and were eventually genetically enveloped by the later waves of migration.
What the shit? -- A Bad Archaeology on TV Rant zhukora1 2009
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A variant derived several thousand years ago from sundadonty and characterized by upper first incisors rotated a few degrees inward from the plane of the face.
Archive 2008-09-01 Kosmo 2008
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