Forum: Anthropology

Evolution stops here: Future Man will look the same, says scientist

Alot of Irish are blond and blue eyed. The stereotype of Irish in America is always red or black haired. Is it true, that as a percentage of population, there are more Blonds/blue eyed in Ireland than in England? I bet it's true. My genes are in part, from North and North West Ireland,...

Has anyone read or looked at this book? I'm thinking of finding it at my university's library and taking a look at it just out of pure curiosity.

Has anyone any thoughts on it? http://www.irishtorrents.com/index.php

Found this on another website, thought it was interesting enough to repost here. Estimated Racial Composition and Nordish Percentage of Indigenous European Population. Sweden = 70% Hallstatt Nordic (Carleton Coon described Sweden as a refuge area for the classic Nordic race), 10% Borreby...

A fairly recent paper that has come out and is quite interesting. Monkeys, in various forms, evolved independently in different parts of the world. They did not walk from Africa to other continents. However, proponents of ‘single origin’ theory believe that they did exactly that – not walked but...

There are a lot of blue eyed blondies in Australia arent there?

There was an episode about Ireland on the PBS series "Nature" here in the U.S. some years ago. I recently discovered this while searching for something else and thought it was pretty interesting. The whole episode is online on the PBS website at the link below. I thought I'd share this for your...

Neanderthals had red hair and freckles

I'll open a can of worms here and ask people for their definition of an Irishman. Percentage of bloodlines, parents, ancestry etc. I noticed some interesting chatter from one of our newer Irish-American members about how some blacks have 51% Irish blood in them, who would define that as Irish?

In a passage from Sex and Character, Otto Weininger is discussing the two basic types of woman; the Prostitute and the Mother. All fall somewhere on a scale between one pole and the other. He then compares the Politican to the Prostitute as essentially similar types. Very compelling theory...

This name came up in connection with a discussion of the Denazification programmes in post-war Germany in another place. There does not appear to be an online copy of the Weltfish pamphlet 'The Races of Mankind' which was used in the programme in Germany. If anyone has it perhaps they could scan...

An interesting article which seems to dispel many myths surrounding this topic.

Read the rest here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4589638.stm This is kind of old and I've seen it before, but I thought it was interesting so I decided to post it here. I find it funny that one of these guys was only about 5ft 2in and the other was 6ft 6in. One extreme to another. :D

Is it just me, or does the further North someone from Scotland comes from, the more their accent resembles the Northern Irish accent? Anyone know where the accent originated, here or there? The similarities in general are there, but for some reason its stronger in the Highlands. Theres also a...

Keltic-Nordid Etymology: In the course of their migrations throughout Europe and elsewhere, the Celtic peoples brought with them a conglomeration of physical types, among which this special Nordid variety seems to have been particularly numerous. Carleton Coon consequently chose the term...

im curious if red hair is a native irish trait or if it was introduced by one of the many invasions during the last thousand years such as the normans or vikings

I have little to no knowledge of central/southern Americans. Some of them have an odd complexion, almost like a yellow/brown/white mixture but at the same time appearing very... white. How much European influence is there...? The Americans seem to detest them. So, whats the deal with...

An interesting article about the origin of our species, Homo sapiens sapiens, which I found that presents the theory that the high diversity found among human populations todays is the result of inbreeding between member of homo sapiens sapiens with predating species like Homo erectus. The article...

What they looked like Skulls