a response from a Wampanoag about the Brown/Warren Indian ancestry controversy

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38. Common, but not universal, in NA & Asian populations. Rare, but not non-existent, in others.

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According to this dental reference work:

http://books.google.com/books?id=HuRcAyXWJxIC&pg=PA185&lpg=PA185&dq=tooth+shoveling+europe+frequency&source=bl&ots=fZsBorCLZw&sig=XK5k9ar8bITExiOh3jBgfpWHAmo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DUNpUPmbKcisiALBgYHICg&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=tooth%20shoveling%20europe%20frequency&f=false

various studies have found mean frequency of shoveling of 3% for slavs, 7.6% for western europeans, 8.4% for finno-permic language cluster, 12.8% for indo-iranians, 47-53% for two central russian ethnic groups, 30-40% for polynesians, micronesians, & southeast asians, 5-6% for australia, melanesia, new guinea, 14.9% for khoisan of africa, 11% for south africa, etc.

china, japan, aleut-eskimo, n & s. american NA, Mongolian Altaic, = 70-85%.
(there's also significant variation between tribes where native american populations are concerned.)

altaic people of siberia = 60%, altaic people of turkey = 36%. Ainu of japan 22%.

also, shoveling not an all or nothing proposition. they break it into grades & patterns which are themselves more frequent in some groups than others. There's also double-shoveling, most frequent in american indians, 55-70%.