Who looks more alike: NW and NE Europeans or SW and SE Europeans?

[Tooting Carmen]

For example: is there more similarity in phenotype between Irish people and Ukrainians or Portuguese people and Bulgarians?

[simple user]

Neither.

[leonj]

For example: is there more similarity in phenotype between Irish people and Ukrainians or Portuguese people and Bulgarians?

Very good question. I would say SW and SE Europeans are more alike.

[Thambi]

Very good question. I would say SW and SE Europeans are more alike.

+1

[Vojnik]

I think equal measure.

[Regnera]

The latter

[The Blade]

Portugal and Bulgaria, while in overall different, are more similar than are Ireland and Ukraine.
It goes the same way in general:
- Even Spaniards and Serbs who are phenotypically (and most likely genetically, too) more different than are Portuguese and Bulgarians are closer to each other than are Irish/Brits/Dutch/Belgians/Northern French and Russians/Ukrainians/Belarusians/Balts.

[Septentrion]

For example: is there more similarity in phenotype between Irish people and Ukrainians or Portuguese people and Bulgarians?

Ukrainians are not North-East Europeans. There would more similarity between Baltic and Irish people. Some Irish are snub-nosed like people of the Baltic region and Finland. in fact, the Irish have a higher frequency of snub noses than the British.

[verbcn]

Gentically SE and SW, as both share some north african/west asia genes. NW are mainly fully genetically european (except for scandinavians who have a small % of east asian, peeking those genes in Finland), unlike NE that a have a big chunk (around 10%) of east asian and turik genes.

[Blondie]

I voted from NW & NE. Ukraine isn't NE country, but estonians, latvians, baltic russians, irish, english can be similar because of nordic admixture.

[Roy]

In my opinion SW and SE.

[Tooting Carmen]

In my opinion SW and SE.

How come?

[Roy]

How come?

I don't know exactly why. Maybe their common Mediterranean Neolithic farmer roots, Roman colonisation period. There were much more internal migrations around the Mediterranean sea throughout the period of existence of one state of the Roman Empire and not only. Much more intermixing, mutual trade than between NW and NE. Erzya, Northern Russians from St. Petersburg, Mari & Veps for example people had very little do with Scottish or their ancestors of them over the time.

[Cristiano viejo]

NEITHER.

[Tooting Carmen]

bump

[CommonSense]

Most Portuguese and Spaniards can pass in my country and most of the surrounding ones too, but, on the other hand, Brits and Irishmen have trouble passing in Russia and the Baltic states.

Not a difficult question at all.

[Ülev]

the Ukrainians are hidden Balkanites, says "Ukraine is Europe"/"Україна це Европа", but the music style is Balkan as f$#@!


https://youtu.be/1N_iVnfY14E

[Iltirbas]

People exaggerate the 'Uralicness'/'Balticness' of North-Eastern Europeans on this kind of forums and also downplay the impact of the Slavic migrations into the Balkan Peninsula.

[Tooting Carmen]

People exaggerate the 'Uralicness'/'Balticness' of North-Eastern Europeans on this kind of forums and also downplay the impact of the Slavic migrations into the Balkan Peninsula.

So you think the NW and NE Europeans look more similar?