Paul Conroy sent me a link to a Dutch article which purports to illustrate what the average human male’s face looks like. From what I can gather this is a weighted average by population. Click through and tell me what you think. Seems plausible enough to me.
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October 28th, 2010 at 11:29 am
Well, let’s see…I’d guess that the average person would have one parent who’s half East Asian and half South Asian (with Indonesian genes just kinda splitting the difference) and another parent who’s mixed European-African-Amerindian. I probably know a few people like that. And my gut reaction would be that they’d have a slightly broader, flatter nose than that. But otherwise, yeah, looks reasonable. Kinda like one of my cousins (though, oddly, the Indian-Venezuelan one, not the Indian-Chinese-African-European-Carib one).
October 28th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Yeah, I though it was interesting – looks Northern Indian or Pakistani to me…
October 28th, 2010 at 11:42 am
I think he isn’t reminiscent of any ethnicity (he is too hybridized), at least from the pre-1492 world.
October 28th, 2010 at 11:45 am
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October 28th, 2010 at 12:34 pm
It would be fine if they analyzed and took the average of the genomes of the participants and compared it with the participants’ genomes and faces and with the average face and determined the correlations.
October 28th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Well, let’s see…I’d guess that the average person would have one parent who’s half East Asian and half South Asian (with Indonesian genes just kinda splitting the difference) and another parent who’s mixed European-African-Amerindian.
Tiger Woods.
October 28th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
The main question is how the weighting was done: was it done by people, country, or ethnic group or what? According to my stereotypes this person is too European to be the average….
October 28th, 2010 at 6:56 pm
I agree with Antonio, I’m kinda surprised how European this guy looks. I saw him on the street and had to pick an origin, I would think him to be of mixed European and East Asian background.
Strange that there seems to be virtually no discernable African-ness in him. But I guess there’s just not that many black Africans when compared to all those Asians.
October 29th, 2010 at 4:13 am
In response to Antonio, the article says the weighting was done by country population.
October 29th, 2010 at 5:02 am
Agreed, european.
Maybe some of the stans (pakistan etc).
I have seen half and more diluted east asians, and they CAN look like this, but seems more middle east to me.
October 29th, 2010 at 7:15 am
I saw him on the street and had to pick an origin, I would think him to be of mixed European and East Asian background.
Strange that there seems to be virtually no discernable African-ness in him.
No, it is obvious from his look that he has Negroid admixture.
October 29th, 2010 at 9:08 pm
Looks Northern Indian to me too.
October 30th, 2010 at 1:47 pm
Looks Northern Indian to me too.
No Northern Indian (except some significantly Negroid African-admixed Makranis?) has such obvious Negroid features. Also Northern Indians (except the significantly Mongoloid-admixed ones in fringe regions) usually look more Caucasoid than that.
October 30th, 2010 at 3:03 pm
The following for reference is a composite itself from four composite of Northwest European, South & West Asian, East Asian and African faces, made with http://faceresearch.org/demos/transform:
http://es.tinypic.com/view.php?pic=o5q2km&s=7
October 30th, 2010 at 7:53 pm
@ Onur:
what are these “obvious Negroid features” you speak of?
October 30th, 2010 at 8:18 pm
what are these “obvious Negroid features” you speak of?
Hard to describe. He is basically a more Caucasoidized version of Tiger Woods.
October 30th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
but seems more middle east to me
His obvious Mongoloid features pull him away from even the the Middle East. The average Middle Eastern is much less Negroid-looking than him (most Middle Easterners, even when we do not include more European-looking populations like Turks, Armenians, Azeris and Kurds in the Middle East, have very little or no Negroid admixture), but in some southern regions of the Middle East like southern Arabia and especially Yemen you can find more Negroid-looking people than him.
October 30th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
Typo correction for “The average Middle Eastern is much less Negroid-looking than him” in comment #17: The average Middle Easterner is much less Negroid-looking than him
October 30th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Correction: His obvious Mongoloid features pull him away from even the the Middle East.
“even” and one of the “the”s are redundant here
October 30th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
when it comes to gestalt assessments you shouldn’t definitively assert that your own perception refutes the subjective perspectives of others.
October 30th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
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November 1st, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Looks too European to me, Germanic to be precise… wait, doesn’t it look a bit like Mr. Spock, who was in fact a hybrid humanoid…
November 2nd, 2010 at 12:39 pm
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