It covers populations that have a certain linguistic, biological and cultural affinity - a certain ill-defined sameness, which shades off at its margins into difference".
Their biological affinities, however, have never been satisfactorily explained.
Each group was defined in terms of distribution and form, sub-categories and biological affinity.
Dental anthropology and the biological affinities of an Iron Age population from Pomparippu Sri Lanka.
Deciduous dental morphology and the biological affinities of a late Chalcolithic skeletal series from western India.
Odontometry and biological affinity in South Asia: analysis of three ethnic groups from northwest India.
This science is challenging, as most traces reflect the behaviour - not the biological affinity - of their makers.
Its biological affinities are uncertain, beyond an assignment to the metazoa.
The pleasure is so strong it must be adaptive, a way of preparing a biological affinity in us for what the calendar inevitably holds in store.
The break-up of the supercontinent of Gondwana left the resulting continents and microcontinents with shared biological affinities.