Ratatoskr (who made humanphenotypes.com) posted these replies to this thread in 2011:
Originally Posted by
Ratatoskr
Here are my morphs of the typical Lappids based on some of the pictures posted in this thread and other sources.
The core Lappid phenotype is shared by most of the Sami people. In modern Sami people it is often altered by Nordid, Cromagnid or Baltid elements. But that doesn't deny the existence of the core Lappid phenotype.
Looking at old pictures 100 years ago the phenotype was still more frequent in its purity. Its between Europid and Mongolid, related to the East Baltid, West Sibirid and Uralid types.
Originally Posted by
Ratatoskr
Here are some old pictures of the original core type. I morphed the females.
They were already mixed around 1900. Not to the extent they are now.
The same you actually observe with people who claim to be native Americans Most of them are not pure. They do not represent the original phenotype. You also observe it with Australian aboriginals. Example: Cathy Freeman. She's not pure at all.
The original Sami type was pred. Lappid. Nowadays most just have some Lappid admixture...
Over the decades and centuries it has been forgotten how the original types looked like. Hope the same won't happen to Nothern Europeans one day.
He seems to have thought that Saami originally had an exaggerated Lappid type. However even Coon admitted that he picked extreme examples in his Lappid plates (https://www.theapricity.com/snpa/troeplate01.htm):
FIG. 6 (2 views, photo Martin Luther). A Norwegian Lapp, with light skin, light eyes, and brown hair. Although considered a pure Lapp, this man has many Nordic traits. He is much more typical of the Lapps as a whole than are Figs. 1, 2, or 3, who were chosen to represent the Lappish prototype rather than the Lapps as a group.
My position is that the original Saami type was probably more boring and average. Even the Scandinavian reindeer Saami who have the highest Siberian admixture still only have around Udmurt-level Siberian ancestry. And Udmurts look pretty boring on average, if you don't cherrypick them like me and Travv.
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