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Phenotype

Malabarese Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

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

Average Face

The Malabarese 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.

Malabarese phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Malabarese phenotype is native to South 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: 22.00°, 78.00° (latitude, longitude).

Malabarese phenotype historical center: 22.00, 78.00 — South Asia

Physical Characteristics

Dark brown skin, black, often wavy hair. Medium height, mesoskelic, ectomorph. Small-headed, dolichocephalic, orthocranic or mildly hypsicranic. Mesorrhine nose, significantly wider than in Indids. The face is short with a mildly prominent chin and full lips. The features overall are less robust and more slender than in the Melanids farther east.

Historical Background

Indid-Veddid influenced type of Southwestern India, found in its most typical form in Kerala, e.g. in Malabarese and related people. Common with a large population. It is similar to the Indo Melanids further East, often mixed with Keralids and sometimes with Malids. In Southwestern Dekkan, there exists a more brachimorph variety, the Canarese.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Malabarese

References & Literature

The Malabarese 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.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1929. Anthropologische Forschungen in Südindien . In: Anthropologischer Anzeiger (6), 64-85.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1934. Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit. Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1937. Geschichte der anthropologischen Namengebung und Klassifikation. In: Zeitschrift für Rassenkunde. Band 5, 209-282, Band 6, 36-96, 151-210.

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