Shomarka Omar Yahya (S.O.Y.) Keita, M.D. (Howard), Ph.D. ( Oxford University)

Research specialties: human biological analysis variation (phenotypic and genetic)

The National Human Genome Center Howard University

and

Natural History Museum and Human Origins Program

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Appointment term: 15-Nov-04 to 14-Nov-07

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Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in South and Southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans, 2005

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Out of Africa - Major genomic mitochondrial lineages delineate early human expansions, 2005

Y-Chromosome Variation in Egypt,

S.O.Y. Keita, African Archaeological Review (2005)

Exploring Northeast African Metric Craniofacial Variation at the Individual Level: A Comparative Study Using Principal Components Analysis,

S.O.Y. Keita, American Journal of Human Biology (2004)

Studies of Ancient Crania From Northern Africa,

S.O.Y. Keita, American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1990)

Genetics, Egypt, and History: Interpreting Geographical Patterns of Y Chromosome Variation

S.O.Y. Keita & A. J. Boyce, History in Africa, 32 pp. 221-246 (2005)

Early Nile Valley Farmers, From El-Badari, Aboriginals or “European” Agro-Nostratic Immigrants? Craniometric Affinities Considered With Other Data, S.O.Y. Keita, Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 191-208 (2005)

History in the Interpretation of the Pattern of p49a,f TaqI RFLP Y-Chromosome Variation in Egypt: A Consideration of Multiple Lines of Evidence, S.O.Y. Keita, American Journal of Human Biology, 17: 559–567 (2005)

Further Studies of Crania From Ancient Northern Africa: An Analysis of Crania From First Dynasty Egyptian Tombs, Using Multiple Discriminant Functions,

S.O.Y. Keita, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 87: 245-254 (1992)

The Persistence of Racial Thinking and the Myth of Racial Divergence,

S.O.Y. Keita and Rick A. Kittles, American Anthropologist (1997)

Studies and Comments on Ancient Egyptian Biological Relationships,

S.O.Y. Keita, History in Africa, 20: 129-154 (1993)

The Origins of Afroasiatic,

Ehret, Keita and Newman, Science (2004)

Conceptualizing Human Variation,

S.O.Y. Keita, Nature Genetics Supplement (2004)

Additional Reading:

Diachronic Patterns of Dental Hypoplasias and Vault Porosities During the Predynastic in the Naqada Region, Upper Egypt,

S.O.Y. Keita, A.J. Boyce (2001)

Forensic Misclassification of Ancient Nubian Crania: Implications for Assumptions About Human Variation, Frank L'Engle_Williams, Robert L. Belcher, George J. Armelago's, Current Anthropology. (2005)

An Analysis of Crania From Tell-Duweir Using Multiple Discriminant Functions,

S.O.Y. Keita, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 75: 375-390 (1988)

Interpreting African Genetic Diversity,

S.O.Y. Keita & Rick Kittles, African Archaeological Review, Vol. 16, No. 2 (1999)

“Race”: Confusion About Zoological and Social Taxonomies, and Their Places in Science,

S.O.Y. Keita, A.J. Boyce, Field Museum of Chicago Institute of Biological Anthropology, Oxford University, American Journal of Human Biology, 13: 569–575 (2001)

Variation in Ancient Egyptian Stature and Body Proportions

Sonia R. Zakrzewski, Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BF, UK, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 121:219–229 (2003)

The Questionable Contribution of the Neolithic and the Bronze Age to European Craniofacial Form,

C. Loring Brace, National Academy of Sciences (2006)

Clines and Clusters Versus “Race:” A Test in Ancient Egypt and the Case of a Death on the Nile,

C. Loring Brace, (1993)

Charts: Y-DNA Haplogroup Tree 2006: International Society of Genetic Genealogy Website

Royal Incest and Diffusion in Africa,

S.O.Y. Keita, American Ethnologist, Vol. 8. No. 2 (1981)

Myra Wysinger

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Who Were the Ancient Egyptians? Dental Affinities Among Neolithic Through Postdynastic Peoples,

Joel D. Irish, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, (2006)

Brief Communication: Y-Chromosome Haplotypes in Egypt

G. Lucotte, and G. Mercier, American Journal of Physical Anthropology (2003)

Phylogeographic Analysis of Haplogroup E3b (E-M215) Y Chromosomes Reveals Multiple Migratory Events Within and Out Of Africa,

Fulvio Cruciani . . . ., American Journal Human Genetics (2004)

A Predominantly Neolithic Origin for Y-chromosomal DNA Variation in North Africa

Arredi, Poloni . . ., American Journal Human Genetics (2004)

The Diversity of Indigenous Africans,

S.O.Y. Keita, Egypt in Africa, (1996), pp. 104-105

The Geographical Origins and Population Relationships of Early Ancient Egyptians,

S.O.Y. Keita & A. J. Boyce. Egypt in Africa, (1996), pp. 25-27

Ancient Egyptian as an African Language, Egypt as an African Culture,

Professor Christopher Ehret, Egypt in Africa, (1996), pp. 23-24

African Language Family Histories

Implications of African Language Family Histories for Human History,

Christopher Ehret

The Idea of a Human Protolanguage,

Hartmut Traunmüller, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University (2003)

Geneticist Dr. S.O.Y. Keita

Analysis of Hair Samples of Mummies from Semna South

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, (1978) 49: 277-262.

The Wavy Line and the Dotted Wavy Line Pottery in the Prehistory of the Central Nile and the Sahara-Sahel Belt

Abbas S. Mohammed-Ali, Abdel-Rahim M. Khabir, African Archaeological Review, Vol. 20, No. 1, March 2003

Natives or Immigrants: Modern Human Origin in East Asia,

Li Jin and Bing Su, Macmillan Magazines Ltd (2000)