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You are probably referring to craniometric continuum and yes, you are correct in this matter, but you need to look at the entire picture and not just a portion of it. To give you a example of how relying in number and measurements alone can be misleading, even Coon himself stated that a Corded crania would fit perfectly among some East African and Iranian plateau Neolithic crania without breaking the regional craniometric continuum. Also, a Atlanto-Mediterranid crania would fit equally well in a Hallstatt site. A lot of things stated by Physical Anthropologists in the past were assumptions, this is why there were so much divergence of ideas, and now that we have genetics, we can confirm which theories were correct, which were incorrect, and obviously, make new theroies but, now, with much more precision.
Alpinid is a pan-Western European type and is not rare in Northwestern Europe at all. Places like Germany and Netherlands, that have very high percentages of Steppe-related ancestry, is full of Alpinoids but there, robust Nordalpinoid forms are more common. Asiatic Alpinid do share some features with Euro-Alpinoids, but just superficial ones like neotenization and pykno-brachymorphic tendencies. The facial traits are different and the genetic profile associated with both types is particularly very distinct, i don't believe that there's a philogenetic relation between them, probably just a parallel evolution. Genetics are far from contradicting my hypothesis: almost the entire megalithic population of the British Isles was replaced by Bell-Beakers, according to recent genetic studies done by Olalde, and it's where the Atlantid type actually peaks.
This is a interesting point but you missed a important and basic anthropologic concept: the phenotype of a individual always tends to correspond with his genotype, everything else is a exception. As Southern France is mainly Alpinid and, considering your view that Alpinid is a reduced Paleo-Mesolithic survivor, do you really believe that 5% of ther total genetic make-up is dominant over two thirds of IE-like ancestry? Also, there are no recessive or dominant types, there are certain superficial traits, like complexion, that are, but not morphologic ones.
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