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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] "[i][b]In sub-Saharan Africa, many anthropological characters show a wide range of population means or frequencies. In some of them, the whole world range is covered in the sub-continent. Here live the shortest and the tallest human populations, the one with the highest and the one with the lowest nose, the one with the thickest and the one with the thinnest lips in the world.[/b] In this area, the range of the average nose widths covers 92 per cent of the world range: only a narrow range of extremely low means are absent from the African record. Means for head diameters cover about 80 per cent of the world range; 60 per cent is the corresponding value for a variable once cherished by physical anthropologists, the cephalic index, or ratio of the head width to head length expressed as a percentage.....[/i]" Jean Hiernaux, [b]The People of Africa[/b] (1975) If Africans possess tremendous diversity in stature, cranio-facial features, and even complexions, why not hair?! We know that tightly coiled (heliotrichous) or 'kinky' type hair is the most common type in Sub-Sahara, enough to be viewed as the stereotypical African hair, yet kinky hair is not the extreme for tight coiled hair but rather approaches it. The true extreme of tight follicle coiling is 'spiral-tuft' which is found among the Khoisan peoples of southern Africa though it is also found among certain aboriginal groups in the Pacific as well. Hair that is looser than kinky hair is tightly curled, and looser than that is loose curls. Even looser hair is wavy, and of course after that comes straight hair. Again my point is Africans possess tremendous genetic diversity that is reflected in their rather broad range of statures, physiques, and especially facial traits, so how come the same can't be for hair. I find it rather interesting how you have those Africans in one extreme with spiral-tuft hair in southern Africa and then Africans in the other extreme with wavy or straight hair in northern Africa. NO Eurasian or caca-soid input required!! [/QB][/QUOTE]
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