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Originally Posted by Señor Malo
just to take an exemple, the english men were usually reputed for being "flegmatic" yet could you prove that an english Brüenn is less "flegmatic" than an english Keltic Nordic? Could you prove that among the englishmen who fit in the popular definition of "Flegmatic", those of keltic-nordic type do overwellmingly outnumber those who fit in the "Bruenn" type?
This reminds me that according to Coon in TROE it had been stablished that in the British Isles criminals usually had narrower faces than f.e. researchers ...
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Well, if going after the constitutional variation, Cromagnid/Bruenn forms should be more mesomorphic build and more viscoese in temperament (slower reaction, less sensible to pain, not as creative, but more stable, with possible explosive erruptions, could be described as "slow schizothymic") than the Keltic Nordic phenotype which is characteristically leptomorphic and more schizothymic in a faster reacting, more sensitive way.
This is also apparent if looking at the musical style of typically mesomorphic/viscoese and more leptomorphic/schizothymic populations, f.e. comparing Amerindians with Europoid and Europoid-Negroid desert people. Now thats again a case in which we can't say what produced it for sure. Environment - cultural selection - culture - music or environment - biological selection - culture - music
To give and example for population wise differences of indirect nature vs. type differences of direct nature, one could take the North vs. South variation in Europe.
F.e. what Nordid, Dalofaelid, Northern Alpinoid and those Osteuropid variants which are close from Northern Europe have largely in common, should be mostly the result of genetic frequencies in the population, not related to a specific phenotype.
Whereas what distinguishes a leptomorphic Nordid type from a pyknomorphic Cromagnoid would be the result of the body itself, its hormonal and nervous structure, which largely equals with the constitutional type.
That would be something Nordid variants should have largely in common with similarly build Mediterranid variants from the south, while they share the population characteristics with their different build (pyknomorphic) neighbours.
Same is true for a pyknomorphic Alpinoid from lets say Spain, France, Southern Germany, Slovakia, Ukraine, Turkey, Syria etc., what he has in common should be directly linked to this racial form, what makes them different to the population and other genetically - or if being not sure - culturally determined characteristics.
But to make things more complicated, there could be, even if we can't prove it now, a direct connection of lets say blue eyes with effects on the whole phenotype including psychic characteristics, f.e. a stronger tendency towards introversion not just in the population but all individuals having the genes for a specific forms of eye coloration. That way it might or might not be causal (like constitutional-hormonal variation), but could also be just (by chance) genetically linked like described above (same loci, same regulator gene?).
Of course a lot of open questions and results which need to be produced in the future...