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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gor: [QB] Zarahan, No study has ever argued Africans have more physical variation or phenotypic diversity than other continental populations. This is your misunderstanding or misreading of Hiernaux's or Relethford's data, not mine. What Hiernaux (1975) first showed was that Sub-Saharan Africans have the highest [i]mean[/i] craniometric variation/range (at least from those indices or measurements quoted in multivariate studies or used by forensic scientists): "In sub-Saharan Africa, many anthropological characters show a wide range of [i]population means or frequencies[/i]. In some of them, the whole world range is covered in the sub-continent [...] only a narrow range of extremely low means are absent from the African record." (Hierneux, 1975) e.g. he goes on to say sub-Saharan Africans cover 92% of the world's variation in mean nasal index (to contrast - some places like Australia [aborigines] cover less than 10%). He is talking about the mean-frequency variation/range only, not trying to argue Africans have more cranial diversity than Europeans or Asians. The arithmetic mean is just the average. So looking at nasal index: regional or local populations within sub-Saharan African cover 92% of the world's average frequency variation/range. So while both wide and narrow noses appear at high frequency in Sub-Sahara African populations (compare Somali to Nigerians), only narrow appear at high frequency in Europe, and wide-noses at high frequency in Australia [aborigines]. This does not however mean there are not wide-nosed Europeans or narrow-nosed aborigines, however they are very rare/low frequency. Instead however you are claiming Africans have more physical variation or diversity, which is totally false. It is only the mean frequency that differs and what sub-Saharans Africans have more variation of. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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