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Subject: What DNA change allows for current Mayan Indian head structure

Date: Thu Mar 22 21:35:21 2007
Posted by David
Grade level: grad (non-science) School: Royal Academy of San Francisco & Portland
City: San Francisco State/Province: CA Country: USA
Area of science: Genetics
ID: 1174624521.Ge
Message:

I just returned from the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.  I learned that the Mayan
Indians had a practice of squeezing their babies' heads between two flat boards
bound together to force the head into the familiar pointed and "angled-back"
form which they found beautiful.  But I don't understand how this has apparently
resulted in the DNA of the contemporary Mayan Indian typically born with
similarly shaped heads . . . unless the DNA of Mayan Indians has been somehow
modified by the practice many years ago.  I reviewed the archive ID:
982014507.Ge and it doesn't really address this question.


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