What makes South europeans look diffrent then North europeans?

[x-class]

What makes south europeans look diffrent then North europeans? the nose? the skull shape?

[Libertas]

Usually colouring, often stature and skull size rather than shape.

[Matritensis]

The facial features are different in many cases,too.

[bluesky]

the facial features

[x-class]

But could you post up pics of light South europeans and Light north europeans,and compare them to each other and tell me why they look diffrent? And do the same with a dark south european and dark north european.

[Detfri]

Our Arabic/Northern African/Turkish admixture.

Ok now the serious answer: mediterraneans tend to have smaller skulls, therefore the face looks in general smaller than that of northern Europeans, more pedomorfic, the nose seems more prominent becouse of the smaller size of the face. Usually southern European teens genetically develop faster (around 12 years for girls and 16-17 the males) so we tend to be:
-shorter
-men and women are more different in features than Northern European men and women (strong sexual dimorphism)
-women have curvier bodies.

And ofc pigmentation is usually darker in Southern Europeans.

[safinator]

Generally the pigmentation but also some difference in facial features.
I don't agree about height(at least not in the case of Balkans)

[Detfri]

An exemple of sexual dimorphism in two Calabrian sieblings (I post them becouse it's the first pair of sieblings that comes to my mind).

SERGIO AND MANUELA ARCURI

[x-class]

Our Arabic/Northern African/Turkish admixture.

Ok now the serious answer: mediterraneans tend to have smaller skulls, therefore the face looks in general smaller than that of northern Europeans, more pedomorfic, the nose seems more prominent becouse of the smaller size of the face. Usually southern European teens genetically develop faster (around 12 years for girls and 16-17 the males) so we tend to be:
-shorter
-men and women are more different in features than Northern European men and women (strong sexual dimorphism)
-women have curvier bodies.

And ofc pigmentation is usually darker in Southern Europeans.

No way, i dont think the arabic/turkish/north african influence is that high

[Detfri]

No way, i dont think the arabic/turkish/north african influence is that high

I was joking!!