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No. The sharpest racial boundary ever within Europe runs along the Pyreneen mountains, i.e. between France and Spain.
This limit is somewhat blurred on a local level because the same minorities (Basques, Catalans) are present on both sides of the range. But on a larger scale, the French and the Spaniards are worlds apart and can't compare.
Digitalized average Spanish and French male (needless to say which is what):
I have a feeling that the French are closer to Germans (1st), and even to Russians (2nd):
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The pictures seem wrong. Here is the France 1984 team, which has several french and italian players and one spaniard. The spaniard stands out in the middle of the french and italians (middle row, second from right), so i agree with you about that:
But the german team from the same era looks a lot different. So i'm not sure about which one is the sharpest racial boundary within europe:
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French and Iberians are competely different, almost like a different race appearence-wise.
The pyrenees are really the sharpest racial boundary in Europe, French people have rather medium sized heads, short and quite wide, high foreheads, broad and shortish faces, prominent chins,broad shoulders, brown fine hair and light eyes usually and a quite white complexion.
The Iberians have longish and extremly narrow heads, with low foreheads and thin jaw/chins ,narrow shoulders,black coarse hair,tan skin and dark eyes usually.
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French people from central France are mainly from a celtic descent, they are related to swiss and south germans. there are other influences (both nordic or southern) but french are west central euro to the core and people who say that french overlap more with spaniards or central italians are just trolls or people who know only France by old anglo saxon stereotypes. (I'm talking about native french with no recent foreign ancestry)
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I agree. It has to be said, however, that (1) the idea that the French have to look either like Brits and Germans, or like Spaniards and Italians, is a totally false choice. Instead, France is a Northern-Southern European hybrid, both phenotypically and culturally. (2) I agree that the Pyrenees are a major boundary/faultline within Europe, but the Alps and the Danube are to at least the same extent as well.
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