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Phenotype

Manchu-Korean Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

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

Average Face

The Manchu-Korean 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.

Manchu-Korean phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Manchu-Korean 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).

Manchu-Korean phenotype historical center: 35.00, 110.00 — East Asia

Physical Characteristics

Pale yellow to dusky yellow brown skin with coarse straight, sometimes wavy hair. Medium height, macroskelic, ectomorph to endomorph. (Hyper-)brachycephalic, hypsicranic with a mildly leptorrhine, sometimes aquiline nose. The face is flat with cheekbones weaker than in Tungid. The chin weak, prognathy mild, the lower lip is relatively thick. The Mongolian fold is pronounced.

Historical Background

North Sinid subtype, significantly influenced by Tungid. Typified by Manchu and Koreans. Most common in Manchuria / North China, and Central as well as North Korea, occasionally across China and in the Amur Valley. Has a Japanese Okayama subvariety that is especially found around Kyoto and in the west of central Honshu. The Japanese Choshiu type is a gracilised modification and sometimes included.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Manchu-Korean

References & Literature

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

  • Baelz, E. 1901. Menschen-Rassen Ost-Asiens mit spezieller Rücksicht auf Japan. Verh.. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 33, 2. 166-198.
  • Yarkho, A. I. 1929. Anthropologicheskiy tip kemchikskikh tannutuvintsev. Severnaya Aziya 5-6.
  • Cheboksarov, N.N.. 1951. Osnovnyje printsipy antropologicheskikh klassifikatsij. TIE. 16.
  • Debets, G. 1974. Essay on the Graphical Presentation of the Genealogical Classification of Human Races. In: Bromley, Y. Soviet Ethnology and Anthropology Today. Mouton & Co.
  • Bunak, V. V., Nestrukh, M. F. and Y. Y. Roginskiy. 1941. Antropologiya. Kratkiy kurs. Moscow.
  • Matsumoto, H. 1921. Notes on the stone age people of Japan. American Anthropologist 23, 1.
  • Matsumoto, H. 1925. Racially, Who Are the Japanese People? In: The World Tomorrow. June 1925.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1952c. Rassentypen und Typendynamik von Asien In: Historia Mundi. Band 1, Munich, 147-166.

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