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Anonymous Dai Alanye said...

The most remarkable thing about these photos is how lacking in distinctiveness they are, possibly because of their composite nature. But the whole idea of nation-to-nation comparison is fraught with difficulty because most nations are of mixed racial heritage.

Let us take Ireland as an example. Being at the far northwestern end of Europe, it has been invaded from south and west by anyone who had the urge or was driven by some other, farther-out invader. I'm not an expert in the history of Eire, but it has had round-barrow people, long-barrow people, Goidels and Germanics invade at one time or another, and I've surely have missed some others.

There is a recognizable Irish "type" who tends to look like Reagan or Doug Flutie -- bony face, long upper lip. But there's another who has a roundish flat face and a tendency toward red hair. And if you visit Ireland you find all sorts of "types" or those who seem to be no type at all.

As for a German types, they're all over the map. I believe Coon's The Races of Europe gives a good idea of this. Poles: there is a Polish type characterized strikingly by flaring gonial angles, but there are plenty of other Poles who don't show this characteristic.

And Russians, as you point out, are highly varied -- not surprisingly since every westward invasion of Europe from the Cro-Magnons to the Golden Horde traversed some part of western Russia, while Balts, Poles and Germans carried some genes eastward. Then there are the Lapps and Mordvinians, among others non-Indoeuropean speakers with their own racial characteristics.

9/15/12, 12:25 PM

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