Nomadic type Kurdish people (Irano-CM/Alpino-CM/Irano-Nordoid)

[Methusalem]

Why do we assume some Kurds are light solely because of their Indo-Iranian connections? There are several genes responsible for light eyes, one of them is the European specific ht2 which is low among West Asian populations, including Kurds:

http://kurdishdna.blogspot.com/2013/...nts-in_27.html

What some call "Irano-CM" is likely just something local. Me and Equilibrium were comparing phenotype in our family and it seems this CM widespread in West-Asia is actually what others would call Mtebid. My great aunts, pure west-Asians from Ossetia:

Equilibrium's Aunt, from north-east Turkey:


Most CM types in the Mid-East and light eyes/hair are not linked with Indo-Europeans.

Mtebid is not CM.

[d3cimat3d]

Mtebid is not CM.

The point is lots of Middle-Eastern types have nothing to do with Cro-Magnid proper sub-race which are residues of the European Mesolithic. Mid-Eastern square faces are common in people who have no European ancestry at all, unlike the Kurds. This Syrian man for example:



He simply can't be Cro-Magnid because that is exclusive to Europe.

My great Aunt is Mtebid but if she had blond hair and eyes she would get classified as either Balto-CM or Faelid.

[Methusalem]

The point is lots of Middle-Eastern types have nothing to do with Cro-Magnid proper sub-race which are residues of the European Mesolithic. Mid-Eastern square faces are common in people who have no European ancestry at all, unlike the Kurds. This Syrian man for example:



He simply can't be Cro-Magnid because that is exclusive to Europe.

My great Aunt is Mtebid but if she had blond hair and eyes she would get classified as either Balto-CM or Faelid.

You are confusing the Cromagnon humans with the Cromganoid racial phenotype and Mtebid is just a Taurid type.

[Instinct]

This one us totally an east nordid, could go as russian.

I have seen these kind of blonde Kurds especially from the city of Siirt/Batman/Van like this guy on the photo.

[Joachim]

Some kurds here really look pan european, not like their brothers in europe who look very MENA, why do you think is like that?

This is what iran Neolithic people looked like.

Modern day Kurds,Iranians are mixed with natufians(gives the Mena Phenotype), anatolian farmers(med wogs),aasi dravidians.

For some reason a few isolated rural communities still preserve the original iran_N look despite having admixture from foreign sources.

Also,not all members in these populations will preserve the og iran_N look.

Mazandranis are the least natufian and aasi among Iranians and look whiter and different than other Iranians.
Although,a few mazandranis will still look like Arabs and Indians due to their small natufian and aasi