The phenotype and genetic closeness of Balticoids

[poiuytrewq0987]

I think the people from the three Baltic countries look quite similar and don't really vary genetics-wise from each others. Am I right or?

[Arne]

I think the people from the three Baltic countries look quite similar and don't really vary genetics-wise from each others. Am I right or?
hmm let me think over it...
http://www.moviepilot.de/files/images/0185/3489/Christian_Bale_article.jpg


Now these are

Romanians
http://www.n24.de/media/_fotos/bildergalerien/2008_4/songcontest_1/02---Rumaenien-AP1.jpg
http://www.extratip-goettingen.de/data/imgs/275m.jpg
Serbs
http://koptisch.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/99566263.jpg
How are they related by Phenotype ?

[Don Brick]

This is already the second time today that people have mixed up the Balkans with the Baltics. Sheesh guys...

[Moonbird]

I think the people from the three Baltic countries look quite similar and don't really vary genetics-wise from each others. Am I right or?

Let's wait and see what Karl has to say about it...:rolleyes:

[poiuytrewq0987]

This is already the second time today that people have mixed up the Balkans with the Baltics. Sheesh guys...

Yeah! Must be because we are like genetic brothers...

[Äike]

I think the people from the three Baltic countries look quite similar and don't really vary genetics-wise from each others. Am I right or?

Well, some Lithuanians can look quite foreign among Estonians. There was some anthropological thread about Lithuanians on this forum, a few months ago. A large portion of the people on the pictures didn't strike me as Estonian.

Latvians are more similar to Estonians, as some Northern-Latvians descend from ethnic Estonians and Western-Latvians descend from Livonians. But there's a considerable portion of Latvians who do not look like Estonians, Eriks is a good example.

At the same time Eriks' schoolmate (http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showpost.php?p=333924&postcount=1) could pass as an Estonian without any problems.


This is already the second time today that people have mixed up the Balkans with the Baltics. Sheesh guys...

This is one of the reasons, why Estonians dislike being Baltic. But this is a minor reason, the main reason is that we aren't ethnoculturally nor linguistically Baltic.