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Phenotype

Fijid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

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

Average Face

The Fijid 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.

Fijid phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Fijid phenotype is native to Melanesia. 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: -10.00°, 155.00° (latitude, longitude).

Fijid phenotype historical center: -10.00, 155.00 — Melanesia

Physical Characteristics

Dark, sometimes medium brown skin. Usually tight-curly black-brown hair. (Rather) tall, brachyskelic, mesomorph, sometimes endomorph. Meso- brachycephalic, orthocranic. Mildly platyrrhine nose, often straight, sometimes with a depressed root. Lips are relatively thick, brow ridges marked, prognathy mild, forehead sloping, hairiness relatively strong.

Historical Background

Polynesid-Melanesid contact type. The dominant type in the population of the Fiji Islands. Both elements have probably mixed in the zone for several millennia. Also found in the Solomons, Vanuatu, East New Guinea, and some other regions of Melanesia and Polynesia.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Fijid

References & Literature

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

  • Biasutti, R. 1967 (1941). Le Razze e i Popoli della terra. 4th Ed. Vol 1-4. U.T.E.T., Torino.
  • Howells, W. W. and Moss, W. L. 1933. Anthropometry and blood types in Fiji and the Solomon Islands. Anthropological papers of the AMNH. 33, 4.
  • Gabel, N. E. 1958. A Racial Study of the Fijians. Anthropological Records 20, 1.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1934. Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit. Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart.
  • Howells, W. W. 1970. Anthropometric Grouping Analysis of Pacific Peoples. Archaeology & Physical Anthropology in Oceania. 5, 3. 192-217.

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