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Phenotype

Planid Phenotype - Face Features & Origin

Native American type, named after the Great Plains of North America. Its reference coordinates sit near 39.4° N, 101.3° W in North America. Rather than a single portrait, the Planid composite below is a statistical average, and the surrounding sections — traits, distribution, research history, references — give that average its context.

Average Face

What you see below is a statistical construction of the Planid reference population. Faces recorded from the Planid sample were overlaid and merged; the result keeps the features most members shared and discards personal variation. It reads like a Planid portrait, but it works like a histogram.

Planid phenotype average face composite

Composite source: Human Phenotypes — Planid

Geographic Distribution

Geographically, Planid anchors to 39.4° N, 101.3° W (North America). That is the point where historical anthropologists judged Planid most concentrated, not a hard edge; modern migration and intermarriage have long since softened whatever boundaries once existed.

Reference center: 39.4° N, 101.3° W — North America. Historical distribution documented circa 500 CE; modern distributions differ substantially.

Physical Characteristics

Yellowish/reddish light brown skin, but the name "red skin" came from war paint.

  • Straight, sometimes wavy, black hair
  • Tall, mesoskelic, mesomorph to endomorph
  • Mesocephalic, ortho- chamaecranic, large-headed
  • Leptorrhine, prominent, long, convex nose
  • Angular, flat face with prominent cheekbones
  • Jaw massive, mouth broad, eyes sometimes slanting

Historical Background

Native American type, named after the Great Plains of North America. In pre-Colombian times concentrated in the Central Canadian forests from where it extended to the Mississippi. When Europeans reintroduced the horse to the continent, bison hunts enabled settlement of the Prairies. Today common in Siouan speakers (Dakota, Assiniboine, Lakota, Crow, etc.), Blackfoot, and Cheyenne. Mixed in Ojibwe, Apache, Dogrib, and others. Population still in the 100,000s.

Research History & Naming

Typological names were coined, contested, and renamed repeatedly across the 20th century, and Planid is no exception. The extract below records the researchers who defined Planid, the alternative labels it accumulated, and where the modern consensus settled.

Named and defined by Imbelloni (1952) , Eickstedt (1952) and Cerulli (1967) , Biasutti (1967) called it Dakota race and Neumann ( 1952 , 1966 ) Lakotid. Others included it together with Appalacid in Silvid ( Eickstedt, 1934 ; ( Lundman, 1988 ; Knussmann, 1996 ) .

Comparison With Nearby Phenotypes

Ranked by great-circle distance from Planid's reference center, these are the five nearest documented phenotypes — the closest being Pueblid at 681 km. Overlapping distributions like these are exactly what makes the quiz hard, and the Pueblid row is where to start looking.

PhenotypeRegionDistanceDistinguishing trait
PueblidNorth America681 kmLight to medium brown skin with straight or wavy hair.
ArizonidNorth America1,085 kmLight yellowish/reddish-brown skin with straight or wavy, dark brown or black hair.
SonoridNorth America1,411 kmYellowish-reddish medium to dark brown skin, straight or wavy black hair.
MexicidNorth America1,526 kmReddish medium, sometimes dark brown skin, often straight black hair.
CalifornidNorth America1,556 kmMedium brown skin with straight hair.

Planid in the Game

When the Planid composite shows up in the quiz, players who know the North America distribution pattern have the edge. The reference answer sits near 39.4° N, 101.3° W; pins on the wrong continent score close to zero, so even a rough regional instinct beats a precise but misdirected pin.

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Planid Phenotype FAQ

Where does the Planid phenotype come from?
The reference coordinates for the Planid phenotype sit near 39.4° N, 101.3° W, in North America. That point marks the center of the North America distribution documented roughly 1500 years ago — actual prevalence spread well beyond it, toward entries such as Pueblid 681 km away, and modern migration has blurred those boundaries further.
What does the Planid phenotype look like?
In the historical literature, yellowish/reddish light brown skin, but the name "red skin" came from war paint. For Planid these are statistical tendencies across a population, not a checklist every individual matches.
Is the Planid phenotype a race or a nationality?
No. Phenotypes like Planid are descriptive averages, not ancestry groups. Planid is one of several types documented in and around North America — see the comparison table above — and the same individual can carry traits associated with several of them at once. The Planid entry describes a statistical pattern, not a group of people and not a nationality.
How does Planid appear in the game?
In Classic Daily and Challenge Mode, the Planid composite face appears without a label. Your task is to drop a pin on the world map where you think that face is historically most common — the scoring uses the distance between your pin and the reference coordinates near 39.4° N, 101.3° W. The post-round review then shows the correct location, your distance error, and this Planid entry.

References & Literature

Every claim on this page traces back to the sources below — the researchers who defined, measured, and argued over the Planid type. The originals behind the Planid entry are worth consulting directly.

  • Imbelloni, J. 1952. Rassentypen und Biodynamik von Amerika. In: Historia Mundi. Band 1, Munich, 188-203.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1952. Biodynamik der Europiden. In: Historia Mundi. Band 1, Munich, 115-134.
  • Czekanowski, J.. 1967. Cz owiek w czasie i przestrzenie. Pa stwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. Warsaw.
  • Biasutti, R. 1967 (1941). Le Razze e i Popoli della terra. 4th Ed. Vol 1-4. U.T.E.T., Torino.
  • Neumann, G.. 1952. Archeology and Race in the American Indian.13-34. In: Griffin, J. Archeology of Eastern United States. Chicago and London.
  • Neumann, G.. 1966. Racial History of the Indians. 505-518. In: Lindsey, A. Natural Features of Indiana. Indiana Sesquicentennial Vol., Indiana A. of Sci.
  • Eickstedt, E. von. 1934. Rassenkunde und Rassengeschichte der Menschheit. Ferdinand Enke. Stuttgart.
  • Lundman, B. 1988. Jordens folkstammar. Huddinge.
  • Knussmann, R. 1996. Vergleichende Biologie des Menschen: Lehrbuch der Anthropologie und Humangenetik. 2ed. Spektrum Akademischer Verlag.

Related Phenotypes

More entries from the same region of the historical map as Planid, each with its own composite and trait profile.

  • Pueblid

    North America · 681 km away

    Native American type, named after the Pueblo communities in Southwestern North America. Extends over a large area of Southern US states as w...

  • Arizonid

    North America · 1,085 km away

    Relatively recent North American contact type. Started to develop as Athabaskan speakers of Canada migrated South during late Pre-Columbian ...

  • Sonorid

    North America · 1,411 km away

    Margid subtype, native to the hot Sonora desert of South Arizona and California, as well as Northwestern Mexico. Probably arrived with one o...

  • Mexicid

    North America · 1,526 km away

    Margid proper. Probably arrived with one of the earlier migrations to America. Typified by Otomi, Purépecha, Pame, Pima of Mexico, as well W...

  • Californid

    North America · 1,556 km away

    Ancient Margid subtype, probably arrived with one of the oldest migrations to America. Shares some features with Ainuids. During the last ce...

Further Reading

Background articles from the blog that explain where the Planid type fits, how these composites are built, and what a face can and cannot tell you.