Arijevske pod-rase: Rasprostranjenost i karakteristike

[Marcus Marulus]

Originally Posted by Awar

I think it depends on the region.

You can see clear PHENOTYPE differences between Dalmatians and Slavonians, Western Serbs and Southeastern Serbs, Serbs from Vojvodina and those from Kosovo, Croats from Zagreb and Croats from Bosnia. I think similar differences and similarities will appear with genotype.

You know, the Montenegrins are probably closer to Dalmatians than to eastern Serbs.
The eastern Serbs are closer to Western Bulgarians, the northeastern Bulgarians are closer to Romanians, the Serbs from Vojvodina to Slavonian Croats etc. etc.

Speaking of Croats, it is my general impression that phenotypical differences are very slight between various regions nowadays, with a tendency of some generalized "middle type" to emerge. It may be well the result of intense mixing between people of different regions which has been happening in the last sixty or something years, with many people leaving their ancestral towns and villages to go elsewhere to live and work, whereby they also got married to people from regions they migrated to. I do not say all differences vanished: the did not. But there is some tendency toward that, at least in my impression, which seems to have been to certain extent corroborated by the last anthropometric measurements (not DNA testing).