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Phenotype

Paleo Melanesid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

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

Average Face

The Paleo Melanesid 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.

Paleo Melanesid phenotype average face composite

Geographic Distribution

The Paleo Melanesid phenotype is native to Australia. 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: -25.00°, 135.00° (latitude, longitude).

Paleo Melanesid phenotype historical center: -25.00, 135.00 — Australia

Physical Characteristics

Dark brown skin. Black-brown, rarely red, tight-curly, sometimes kinky hair. Medium-height, hyperbrachyskelic, meso- to endomorph. Dolicho- mesocephalic, mildly hypsicranic. Low, robust face, massive jaw. Nose hyperplatyrrhine, concave with a depressed root. Lips rather thick, not bulging. Supraorbital arches common, forehead high, mouth very large, hairiness strong, chin receding, prognathy mild.

Historical Background

Melanesid variety with very ancient features, closer to Australids. Typified by the Kanak of New Caledonia, in its purest form in the north of the island. Also important on the Loyalty Islands, Vanuatu, Solomons, East New Guinea and Eastern Australia, Fiji, occasionally across Polynesia. Maori wiped it out in New Zealand many centuries ago. Has recently been pushed into minority status in New Caledonia.

Source: Human Phenotypes — Paleo Melanesid

References & Literature

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

  • Sarasin, F. 1916-1922, Nova Caledonia. Anthropologie der Neu-Caledonier und Loyality-Insulaner. Berlin.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1934. Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit. Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart.
  • Weinert, H. 1965. Die heutigen Rassen der Menschheit. In: Lundwig, B. and H. Plank. Handbuch der Biologie. Vol 9 (2).
  • 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.
  • Virchow, R. 1874. Die physische Anthropologie der Finnen. Verh. Berliner Ges. Anthr. Ethnol. Urg. VI. 185-189.
  • Howells, W. W. 1970. Anthropometric Grouping Analysis of Pacific Peoples. Archaeology & Physical Anthropology in Oceania. 5, 3. 192-217.
  • Pietrusewsky, M. 2005. The physical anthropology of the Pacific, East Asia and Southeast Asia. In: Genetics and Physcial Anthropology.

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