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Phenotype

Nesiotid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

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

Average Face

The Nesiotid 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.

Nesiotid phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Nesiotid 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).

Nesiotid phenotype historical center: -10.00, 155.00 — Melanesia

Physical Characteristics

Light to medium brown, velvet-like skin, wavy, sometimes curly brown-black, rarely light hair. Tall, mesoskelic, mesomorph, sometimes endomorph. Mesocephalic, mildly hypsicranic. Mildly leptorrhine, slightly convex nose. Facial features refined, marked. Not very thick lips, supraorbital arches mild.

Historical Background

Mediterraniform Polynesid variety. Has been noted for its Europoid features, although no close genetic relationship exists. Typical in Samoa, also Marquesas, Tahiti, Easter Island, Fiji, Hawaii, all of Polynesia, but also Solomons, Vanuatu, New Zealand, and parts of New Guinea, where it often blends with Melanesids. Occasionally in the (Lesser) Sunda and Malaca Islands, parts of East Asia.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Nesiotid

References & Literature

The Nesiotid 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. 1952. Umriss der Rassenkunde des Menschen in geschichtlicher Zeit. Ejnar Munksgaard. Kopenhagen.
  • Lundman, B. 1967. Geographische Anthropologie. Rassen und Völker der Erde. G. Fischer, Stuttgart
  • Sullivan, L.R. 1923. The Racial Diversity of the Polynesian People. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. 23. 65-71.
  • Giuffrida-Ruggeri, V. 1913b. Homo sapiens. Einleitung zu einem Kurse der Anthropologie. Wien.
  • Biasutti, R. 1967 (1941). Le Razze e i Popoli della terra. 4th Ed. Vol 1-4. U.T.E.T., Torino.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1934. Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit. Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart.
  • Knussmann, R. 1996. Vergleichende Biologie des Menschen: Lehrbuch der Anthropologie und Humangenetik. 2ed. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.
  • Friedlaender, J. S. et al. 2008. The Genetic Structure of Pacific Islanders . PLoS Genet. 2008 Jan, 4, 1.

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