Epicanthic fold

[Neanderthal]

External epicanthic fold is better known in anatomy books as the 'Nordic fold', probably common in some Northern Cromagnid types.





Mild:

[Atlantic Islander]

External epicanthic fold is better known in anatomy books as the 'Nordic fold', probably common in some Northern Cromagnid types.





Mild:

It's in most CM types.

[waltraut]

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/sho...u-explain-this

take a view here, same topic with interesting example!!

[Nehellenia]

Why you think that? I think I saw a lot of pictures about Scandinavians with this kind of eyes shape, with light color, there were so beautiful,btw. But I am too much lazy to search the net for pictures

East Baltid, Lappid and Strandid (perhaps) Scandinavians, i would think

[Merida]

I have an external fold on my right eye and an external/median fold on my left eye. It makes it hard for make-up! lol

[Eusocial]

Richard Gere is Nordic?

I have these btw. No trace of East Asian or Amerind or even Mideastern ancestry and I've tried all the DNA tests out there. It's apparently some kind of primitive north Europid thing. Or very distant stuff that DNA doesn't pick up but shows in my case.

The folds show in Scandinavian children because the nasal bridge hasn't fully developed yet, and specifically the part of the bone under the brows that pulls the skin away from the eye in most Europids. Slightly depressed nasion can have the effect of accentuating the fold a little.

Coloration also plays a role too, obviously. This trait might have been selected against in parts of Europe with a history of invasions from Asia.

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

Epicanthic folds help reduce the chance for snow blindness you know that right.

[Yuffayur]

Epicanthic fold is not too rare in Northafrica, it's found regulary in Nafrican isolated people, as a group I will say the Atlasian berbers from Southern Morocco have the highest percent of Epicanthic.(some look very Central asian).
Here some picture of Atlasians:

[Maux]

Hi, today I saw a picture of Björk and thought that she didn't look very nordic, so I did a little search and learnt about this fold, and I also discovered this thread and this forum. Well, I happen to have a strange fold on the inner side of my eyes which, by the way, my friends some times had made fun of, and I have got a little er... "worried". Just to know your opinion. My parents and sisters don't have it so it might not be an ancestry matter but some kind of genetic disorder or anything. It also seems to be virtually inexistent in the people of this my country.

(By the way, is it possible to remove an attached image? I wanted to because it appears liying on one side but can't see how)

[Nicholas-Mountblack]

Epicanthic fold is to protect the eyes from the sun reflecting off the snow, is present in some Sami's why maybe this present in some scandinavians.