Comments on: The global human

By: A Mixed-Race Beige World? | Gori Girl

A Mixed-Race Beige World? | Gori Girl — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 19:39:24 +0000

[...] and changing birth rates. As one of the commenters on Razib of Gene Expression’s blog posts on this topic points out, attempts to “average out” the current world population [...]

By: Blackbird

Blackbird — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:51:36 +0000

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…

By: The global human – II | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine

The global human – II | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:15:13 +0000

[...] reader pointed me to a second composite image of a “global human.” It is “a composite [...]

By: The global human – II | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine

The global human – II | Gene Expression | Discover Magazine — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:15:13 +0000

[...] reader pointed me to a second composite image of a “global human.” It is “a composite [...]

By: Razib Khan

Razib Khan — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:09:45 +0000

when it comes to gestalt assessments you shouldn't definitively assert that your own perception refutes the subjective perspectives of others.

By: onur

onur — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 04:25:04 +0000

Correction: His obvious Mongoloid features pull him away from even the the Middle East.

“even” and one of the “the”s are redundant here

By: onur

onur — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 04:03:03 +0000

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

By: onur

onur — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:43:49 +0000

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.

By: onur

onur — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:18:55 +0000

what are these “obvious Negroid features” you speak of?

Hard to describe. He is basically a more Caucasoidized version of Tiger Woods.

By: Eurasian Sensation

Eurasian Sensation — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 02:53:52 +0000

@ Onur:
what are these “obvious Negroid features” you speak of?

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 22:03:52 +0000

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

By: onur

onur — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:47:50 +0000

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.

By: Doug1

Doug1 — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 04:08:19 +0000

Looks Northern Indian to me too.

By: onur

onur — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 14:15:06 +0000

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.

By: Shade

Shade — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:02:42 +0000

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.

By: lucas

lucas — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 11:13:53 +0000

In response to Antonio, the article says the weighting was done by country population.

By: Eurasian Sensation

Eurasian Sensation — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:56:52 +0000

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.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 21:06:41 +0000

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….

By: ed

ed — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:29:05 +0000

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.

By: onur

onur — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:34:57 +0000

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.