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Phenotype

Karroid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

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

Average Face

The Karroid 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.

Karroid phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Karroid phenotype is native to Sub-Saharan Africa. 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: 2.00°, 20.00° (latitude, longitude).

Karroid phenotype historical center: 2.00, 20.00 — Sub-Saharan Africa

Physical Characteristics

Yellowish light or medium brown skin, heavily wrinkled in old age, peppercorn hair. Short, mesoskelic, ecto-, sometimes endomorph, sometimes steatopygic. Dolicho- mesocephalic, chamaecranic. Hyperplatyrrhine, depressed nose, wider than Kalaharid, convex upper lip. Eyes pseudo-Mongoloid, penis suberect, prognathy is very weak.

Historical Background

Sanid variety, named after the Karoo desert. Very ancient and distinct with many unique features. Was dominant in Southern Africa some centuries ago until Bantu and European colonisation almost wiped it out. A few thousand remain among Taa speakers, Xam, Khomani, Karretjie, and Coloreds. Loss of culture and displacement could make it extinct very soon, like the similar, long-gone Strandlooper type.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Karroid

References & Literature

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

  • Lundman, B. 1967. Geographische Anthropologie. Rassen und Völker der Erde. G. Fischer, Stuttgart
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1934. Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit. Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart.
  • Baker, J.R.. 1981. Race. Oxford Univ. Press. London.
  • Knussmann, R. 1996. Vergleichende Biologie des Menschen: Lehrbuch der Anthropologie und Humangenetik. 2ed. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
  • Biasutti, R. 1967 (1941). Le Razze e i Popoli della terra. 4th Ed. Vol 1-4. U.T.E.T., Torino.
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