So we all come from a diverse genetic makeups from all walks of life. Physical features that are visible to the naked eye pretty much tells apart of our ethnicities. What we see is indeed skin deep, shall we take a look at the core? The skull, especially?
~*Caucasoid*~
- Caucasian, or white, European descended people have relatively no prognathism (or the extension of the lower jaw) and relatively little projection of the alveolar ridge, or the bones which contain teeth. Faces are typically smaller, with a tear-shaped nasal cavity and tower-shaped nasal bones. The palate is triangular and the skull has a sloping eye orbital formation. The forehead and cranium are prominent.Example of people of Caucasoid Skulls: Indian, White Dudes, Arabian, Iranian and most Westerners and Middle Easterners.
~*Mongoloid*~
- Mongoloid, or Asian, people have small to no extension of the lower jaw and the nasal sill or dam, and an oval nasal cavity. The nasal bones are tent-shaped and the palate is horseshoe-shaped. The eye orbital is rounded and non sloping, and the cranium is generally rounded.Example of people of Mongoloid Skulls: Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian and most 'Asian' variety.
~*Negroid*~
- Black, or Negroid, skulls feature a broad and round nasal cavity and no dam or nasal sill. There is notable facial projection in the jaw and mouth area and a rectangular palate. The eye orbit shape is square or rectangular. The skull is dolichocephalic, which means longer from front to back proportionally.Example of people of Negroid Skull Types: Countries like Nigeria, Senegal, Zimbabwe. Ones we call The Continents.Souce: http://www.ehow.com/list_6807001_types-human-skull-shapes.html
Now that you know your skull types...which one is you?
4 comments:
American Indians have mongoloid skulls.
Funny how those textbook descriptions mismatch a little bit some of the traits used to illustrate. Take sloping eye sockets, for example, both the negroid and the mongoloid fit better the caucasoid description than the eye socket of the caucasoid skull, which is closer to mongoloid. The mongoloid's orbit also fits better the negroid description and vice-versa.
I've seen once a scientific paper with 4 racial skulls where only the australoid one was crispy-clear (even though it isn't rare that such skulls look caucasoid), the other ones would all give the wrong impression: the mongoloid would look negroid at first glance, the caucasoid would look mongoloid, and the negroid looked caucasoid. Only paying close attention to much minor details we could really find some indicative of the correct classification, such as, the mongoloid, albeit more prognathic than the negroid, had an edge-to-edge bite, which is an almost exclusive mongoloid feature. I don't remember the clues to correct classification of the other two tough, except that the negroid was just a little bit more dolichocephalic than the caucasoid. This was also "correct" on the mongoloid skull as well, but the difference between those three wasn't so striking to make it immediately obvious.
Egyptians are Mongoloid skulls, why the deception?
@Anon, sorry. I stand corrected.
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