FaceResearch.org has published the results of a recent experiment where experimental psychologists at the University of Glasgow in Scotland have combined the faces of women around to world to approximate the "average face" of each country. Using a modern version of the technique that Sir Francis Galton pioneered in the 1800's, multiple images of faces are aligned and composited together to form the final result.
There is already controversy surrounding the results. Some people feel that the average is "too attractive." Part of this is explained by the process. Instead of having a lot of blurry images with undefined features, this method averages the shape of the features before blending the images together. Also when blending, remember that many singular issues are "averaged away." The study also does not reveal how the participants were selected or how large the sample size actually is.
No conclusive evidence, however, on Polish women's propensity for bangs.
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Race does exist, but only as a socio-cultural construct, not a biological one. The categorization of people into races was invented by pseudoscientists who needed excuses for killing and enslaving people who didn't look like them. I do not know where you get your "data" from--(if you have legitimate sources, please post them)--but actual contemporary science has shown that there is more genetic variation within people of the same race than there is between the different racial groups.
Eduardo- congratulations, by stating this: "but actual contemporary science has shown that there is more genetic variation within people of the same race than there is between the different racial groups" and drawing the conclusion that that entirely negates race on biological grounds, you've employed Lewontin's Fallacy, which is well, a fallacy. Read: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12879450
There's a bit more to science than mindlessly repeating what your professor-afraid-of-being fired tells you about an unrelated subject in your Sociology 101 class.
¡Oh my god, he put "recent" on capitals, this proves his "recent studies" bullshit is TOTALLY TRUE!
Hahahaha, Preston Wiginton! Give a fool enough time and his true motivation will be revealed. Thanks for the entertainment. You ask what is BS? Look in the mirror, dude.
as a genomics researcher, I call bull on these assertions and your very bad interpretation of them.
You really don't understand genetics and populations, that much is obvious.
so, when can you start digging your grave... since you are "white". I've hope you've started already. OH! And I'll help! While you're at it, jump in, alive. Just sit there and keep posting, while I fill the grave in. :)
(One can only wish.)
... no known for their war-ish ways .. most were peaceful? i dont know i wasnt there.. from observing tribes elsewhere generally they war with a neighbour due to shortage of food to hunt locally, not a great deal more. its not the tribal way.. competing for land is the advent of capitalist greed or i suppose originally feudal greed from a land owner wanting from another land owner.
Why debate with this raging racist? Here is who he is:
http://blog.adl.org/tags/preston-wiginton
Considering all humans evolved in Africa and migrated out (in multiple waves, according to the latest anthropological theories)
, that logic makes anyone not in Africa an immigrant. Your reasoning is flawed in a lot of places. So is your grammar.
That THEORY is believed by very few these days. Even Darwin didn't believe it. Regional Theory is the prevailing theory of the day.
Theories in science are not "believed" they are based on EVIDENCE. And all the evidence and modern antropologycal current indicates that our common ancestor comes from Africa
PD: When Darwin was alive, antropology and discoveries in this area were not advance like today
(English is not my native lenguage, forgive the mistakes)
so there is some truth to the regional theory also then or what the chinese believe that their origins start from Peking Man... you can go here for arguments against Out of Africa. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Out-of-Africa-is-WRONG/149753778495963
Sorry, i can only see that this idea is selecting some findings to acomodate them in to their believes and speculations based in a biased viewpoint. I see you defend the concept of races in humans and that is a lack of rigor and taxonomical validity. We only can talk about genotypic and fenotypic variations.
Citing Facebook is more embarrassing than citing Wikipedia, bro.
It's just the other way around, Preston. The out of africa theory gains more and more support. These days a large majority of scholars support it. With every new method science has at its disposal to actually find real answers to such questions, it becomes clearer. One example: genetic markers http://www.ted.com/talks/spencer_wells_is_building_a_family_tree_for_all...
But many South American countries have a mixture of European descended peoples, Descendants of African slaves, Indigenous peoples and Metiz@s ("mixed" folks). Also, the United States is not ALL immigrants. Many people were forced to live here and Indigenous peoples are still around.
A similar case for Brazil.
Peru is also very very mixed, all people I know here are white and fair-skinned (even my chinese friends are white and very tall (over 6'1''))
But you see the result, this is because it's an average so they also took people from the jungle and from the highlands and that influenced it.
And what about Brasil?? (and all America...)
brazil is there
Brazil is also made up of immigrants from all over the world. I think the difference is there are more interracial mixing in Brazil such that Brazilian women actually resemble the above picture.
The US is a settler-colonial state, but it doesn't mean that there aren't Indigenous peoples there...
the "settlers" murdered them all
Well, they were kind of killing and eating each other before the "settlers" came to America and introduced civilization to them.
Seriously? You discredit your "name." Chompsky would be disgusted at your comment and think quite the opposite.
Really then please tell me how Cherokees treated other tribes? Cherokees even had black African slaves that they saw as inferior.
My ancestors were neither a violent people, nor a cannibalistic people, you ignorant twit.
If they were Ameri Indian they surely were violent unless they were so isolated they had not competition for resources. Most in North America wre not cannibalistic but most from Mexico south were. They Aztecs and Myans in particular. They each practiced human sacrifice on a regular basis. Where the hell do you people get your education from?
They did practice human sacrifice, usually on prisoners of war, but they would also sacrifice a handful of their own people, who viewed it as one of the highest honors, and the most prestigious way to die, to the point that it was even called the "flowery death." Don't even try to act as if you understand those cultures, or their practices.
Very little cannibalism was going on in North America for one.
The population was over 20 million before settlers came for two.
The societies that thrived for thousands of years on the continent, thrived for a reason. Their societies were very civilized.
The structures of gov were sophisticated and mainly run by women. Womens roles in native society were revered.
What was done to natives in North America was UNCIVILIZED!
Every one had a role in life, no one was left out unless they were shunned by the society as a whole.
Learn some history not what was said while you sat on a knee.
North America was not the Garden of Eden. Those that we call native Americans were "settlers" too. Yes, they fought with each other and took slaves.
^^^^^^^ that is what idiots always say.
By 1860, the Cherokees had 4,600 slaves; the Choctaws, 2,344; the Creeks, 1,532; the Chickasaws, 975; and the Seminoles, 500. Look it up your self. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/655380/posts
I did not say it was a Garden of Eden.
I did say it was a civilized society.
We had a way of life to follow, we had governance, we had plenty of food and did not have to be nomads.
My people did practice cannibalism, not for food sakes but to absorb the enemy so that enemy could not come back to harm you.
We lived fairly peaceful lives and did take slaves and fought wars.
What we were able to accomplish was great and worth learning about, too bad we were seen as in the way for the rape and pillage of this continent. We thrived for thousands of years on this continent and in less than 500 years the settlers ruined this continent, all in the name of money.
I come from the Salmon People, Tsimshain. My people lived in long houses not teepees.
Money and Christ. Remember Manifest Destiny was a religious decree.
Christ had nothing to do with it. The English wanted their language spread all over the world. it was ego alone that did the job. England only did lip service to religion out of fear not out of respect for the written word of god. It was all about money and kingdom, (EGO))!
wow a sign of intelligence. If you disagree with Jack you KNOW NOTHING OF HISTORY and live in wishville.
But they were not technologically superior so they lost to the white man. Tribes may have had cohesion among the members of the tribes but they by no means had love for other tribes. It was war fare and chaos otherwise. 20 million is a high number. 2 million is the low estimate. I do give you kuddos for not saying there were 275 million like some do. The one thing you need to remember is that it was Christianity that conquered the North American continent, not the white man. The white man was just the messenger.
So existence for thousands of years within reach of each other means nothing. Trade between nations means nothing. Family bonds between nations mean nothing. You need to read some more as you are very unbalanced in your estimation of what think you know. We thrived on this continent even with our slaves and wars. To use god as their reason is just as deceptive as they were. They paid lip service to god and had to make a new religion so divorce was able to happen for royalty. They European society is flawed and bereft of and civilization. Technology means nothing to a society that thrived with resources aplenty and a will to steward those resources for the future.
Civilization? Really? What a joke!
your "civilization" is very obviously not conducive to the human condition... it has made everything a big steamy pile of fecal matter. and your brains have turned to mush, also painfully obvious.
YOu say this probably sitting in air conditioning while protected by the rule of law. I would like to see how you would like it if you were taken back to tribal society.
lies u tell
No they were not Noam, they were peaceful and kumbaya.. everything was great before the white man showed up!!! Please note sarcasm. Anyone who believes that bullshit has not understanding of history.
They had their own civilization before Europeans came.
and small pox
and the indians sent back syphilis to Europe.
Europeans brought disease to the new world, which contributed to wiping out native populations.
Every migration brings new disease. So just the white man is guilty.
For bringing disease to the new world, yes.