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I have heard much discussion of the Atlantid type or spectrum. Apparently, Atlantids are simply a catch-all term for those who can't sort out their Nordid traits from their robust Mediterranid traits. Essentially, Nordids and robust Mediterranids mixed with each other extensively in northwest Europe, so that its often hard to tell one from the other.
However, is it possible that Atlantids are basically Mediterranids that have been depigmented through natural selection? Natural selection in favor of light skin in the climates of the British Isles and the Low Countries is obvious. But light eyes also may have been selected for - for some reason they have high frequency in all North Europe, even(especially) Finland, where 90% of the population have blue eyes, despite have a low frequency of Nordids.
Furthermore, some of the places where Atlantids frequent are places that Nordids supposedly never really settled, for instance Ireland and the Scottish Highlands(if you assume the Celts were not pred. Nordid).
What are your thoughts? I'm not sure either way, as the typology of the British Isles still confuses me.
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