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Phenotype

Choshiu Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

The Choshiu phenotype is a east asia human phenotype documented in historical anthropology literature. This page presents the Choshiu phenotype average face composite, its geographic distribution, physical characteristics, historical background, and academic references.

Average Face

The Choshiu phenotype average face is a composite synthesized from multiple individual photographs by historical anthropologists. It represents a statistical impression of recurring facial features, not a real person.

Choshiu phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Choshiu phenotype is native to East Asia. The historical distribution below reflects approximate centers of prevalence documented roughly 1500 years ago; modern borders and population movements have since blurred these boundaries.

Approximate coordinates: 35.00°, 110.00° (latitude, longitude).

Choshiu phenotype historical center: 35.00, 110.00 — East Asia

Physical Characteristics

Light to brownish yellow skin with coarse straight hair. Rather short to medium height, macroskelic, ectomorph. Mesocephalic, sometimes dolichocephalic, (mildly) hypsicranic. Mildly leptorrhine, sometimes convex nose. The face is narrow and elongated, the mouth small, and the eyes oblique, often with the epicanthic fold.

Historical Background

Gracilised variant of the Manchu-Korean type, named after the old Japanese Choshu Domain. Once common in Chinese-Korean aristocracy. Today mainly found in Japan. Can be placed in North Sinid. Probably developed through selection of gracile female features in marriages of the noble circles. In its purest form along the west coast of Honshu, but found across all Japanese islands and sometimes in Korea.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Choshiu

References & Literature

The Choshiu phenotype entry above is compiled from the following academic references. Readers are encouraged to consult the original sources for verification and deeper context.

  • Bernhard, W. 1983. Ethnogenesis of South Asia with special reference to India. Anthropologischer Anzeiger 41, 2, 93-110.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1952c. Rassentypen und Typendynamik von Asien In: Historia Mundi. Band 1, Munich, 147-166.
  • Saller, K. 1949. Art- und Rassenlehre des Menschen. Curt E. Schwab. Stuttgart.
  • Weinert, H. 1965. Die heutigen Rassen der Menschheit. In: Lundwig, B. and H. Plank. Handbuch der Biologie. Vol 9 (2).
  • Vallois, H. V. 1971. Las races humaines. 8 Ed. Grammont.
  • Lundman, B. 1967. Geographische Anthropologie. Rassen und Völker der Erde. G. Fischer, Stuttgart
  • Klenke, W. 1938. Zur Anthropologie japanischer Wettkämpfer, Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde 8.
  • Matsumoto, H. 1921. Notes on the stone age people of Japan. American Anthropologist 23, 1.

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