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Originally Posted by OneEnglishNorman
That's why we discern physical type on the Anthropometrics board. One cannot tell another's genes just from a photo, but the sub-racial appearance can be judged so.
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As usually your hollow head did the trick.
Not even the genes can tell apart sub-race on such homogenous population as Swedes f.e, why? Because they are closely related and metric traits such as facial -or cephalic index are non-racial traits. (a fact) If the genes cannot tell apart Borrreby from Nordid or Dalofaelid then why should we try to do it?
Metric system is based on assumption that metrical similarity equals relationship. But it doesn't. If you want to start to compare your fingers you may discover that the index finger of your left hand is more robust than the index finger of your right hand. However, it doesn't mean that those hands would not be related, nor does it mean the your slimmer right hand's index finger is more related to some leptomorph Somali's index finger. It's just internal variation in your body parts, allthough they seem different in size they are closely related and both fingers are results of your English genepool.
That may not have been a best example but it really describes the lunacy where metrics may take you. It's all pretty wortless activity but I cannot deny it's not fun.
Like said the only legitimate typological system is based on genomine DNA tests. Morphological differencies can be made but don't give you very little information on a living person. Through skulls one easily extract caucasoid skulls from Negroid, and Mongoloid skulls However as said, you have to yourself give the metric values for the types "Borreby" and "Nordid", the genes don't tell you the difference, such activities are called, pseudoscience. If Coon says there are very little Nordids in the strict sense then he has simply established such a strict man-made criteria based on metrical traits and facial features that very few people fall in to those. It's all man made with very little to do with reality, but obviously Coon is right, after all few people pass in his artificial Nordid criteria. However as said so many times before Coon was just among many in the 30's, lot of the stuff he said was based on the assumption that Nordids descend from mediterranians and his typological system can be viewed through that bullshit context.