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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Knowledgeiskey718: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Boofer: [qb] Can someone explain what these "tropical adaptations" actually are? Dark skin and long limbs? What about nose width? I often hear about drier climates proudicing narrow noses. Is that true? Even still, I think it has also been mentioned that East Africans are not always those pointy-nosed folks...Some do not look much different from stereotypical West Africans and vice-versa, and there is great overlap. Like what was mentioned in another thread; East African is not one common look. But, I'm still not completely sure which looks are almost soley indigenous, and which looks show great recent admixture from the arabian penninsula. I've heard that the Amhara have lots of recent admixture, but not the Oromo...And then I've heard that both groups do not differ much as far as admixture is concerned. [/qb][/QUOTE]As explained, the difference in phenotypes is a result of adaptation to different climates a hot-dry climate, and a hot-humid climate. Elongated types are more adapted to hot dry climates....broad faced types to hot humid climates. Tropical adaptation entails- dark skin, longer limbs. Elongated Africans, in example East Africans are extremely tropically adapted and have longer limbs than other Africans. ex. http://wysinger.homestead.com/egyptian_body_proportions.pdf Variation in Ancient Egyptian Stature and Body Proportions Sonia R. Zakrzewski* [b]No significant differences[/b] [b] were[/b] [b]found in either index through time for either sex.[/b] [b]The raw values in Table 6 suggest that Egyptians[/b] [b]had the [/b] [b]“super-negroid”[/b] [b]body plan[/b] [b] described by Robins[/b] [b](1983). The values for the brachial and crural[/b] [b]indices show that the distal segments of each limb[/b] [b]are longer relative to the proximal segments than [/b] [b]in[/b] [b]many “African” populations (data from Aiello and[/b] [b]Dean, 1990).[/b] [b]This pattern is supported by Figure 7[/b] [b](a plot of population mean femoral and tibial[/b] [b]lengths; data from Ruff, 1994), which indicates[/b] [b]that the Egyptians generally[/b] [b]have [/b] [b]tropical body[/b] [b]plans.[/b] [b]Of the Egyptian [/b] [b]samples, only the Badarian and Early[/b] [b]Dynastic period populations have shorter tibiae[/b] [b]than predicted from femoral length. Despite these[/b] [b]differences, all samples lie relatively clustered[/b] [b]together as compared to the other [/b] [b]populations. [/b] As for the admixture, note the following The Story of Man Carleton Coon p 196-197 Borzoi Books, 1965 [QUOTE] Few skeletons have been found in the Sahara, and these are hard to date because of soil erosion. In Arabia prehistoric archaeology has barely been started. Yet we can be reasonably confident, until other evidence upsets the theory, that these deserts were the home of the slender variety of Caucasoid man. [b]In East Africa this type has survived among the slender, narrow-faced Watusi and other cattle people.[/b] [/QUOTE]According to Coon, the Tutsis represent an ancient "Caucasoid" man in Africa. But Tutsis have ~80% E3a according to published data. Tutsis are elongated Africans just as Ethiopians are. There is absolutely no outside non-African admixture in the Tutsis. Yet they display thin noses and lips. Which shows the diversity of Africa. [IMG]http://majimbokenya.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/paul_kagame.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE]....inhabitants of East Africa right on the equator have appreciably longer, narrower, and higher noses than people in the Congo at the same latitude. A former generation of anthropologists used to explain this paradox by invoking an invasion by an itinerant "white" population from the Mediterranean area, although this solution raised more problems than it solved since the East Africans in question include some of the blackest people in the world with characteristically wooly hair and a body build unique among the world's populations for its extreme linearity and height. C. Loring Brace Nonracial Approach Towards Human Diversity Cited from The Concept of Race Edited by Ashley Montagu The Free Press p. 135-136 [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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