I am surprised anyone has ever doubted that? Well, okay, not surprised, actually.
Well, I think IIRC (don't nail me down on that) Lundman suspected that Nordics, West-Alpinids and West Mediterranids evolved out of low-skulled Western European "Paleo-Atlantids" (or at least, something similar), as the name says, its basically supposed to be a "remnant race" that you can encounter in isolated, more infertile areas (there they were "pushed" to by the more "modern" races and so they didn't take part in the "depigmentation" of the other parts of NW Europe) that hadn't been touched by modernity until a few decades ago (so regions in Scandinavia, Eastern parts of Britain...). This stuff about blood groups Lundman did was a "cute" way to integrate population genetics into typology (so, basically considering evolution and the "modern synthesis of biology", likewise late Coon tried this), but since all you had was data on (mostly) meaningless stuff like blood groups it wasn't very convinincing and insightful.
Actually, v.Eickstedt used the term "Atlantid" as a subrace of the Mediterranid race, mostly associated with Celtic areas:
Other authors like Biasutti, Scheidt and even Lundman (who considered "admixture" as a possible factor, again) considered them to be the dark-haired Nordics and for some reason Lundman renamed them "North-Atlantid" in his scheme, while using "Atlantid" as a large umbrella term for all low-skulled Europid subraces (confusing, I know).
Yeah, some of them seem to have Nordic or whatever admixture, but notice the upturned-short noses and weak chins in the side profile, pretty much the opposite of the "pretty" chads and girls people are posting here. They remind me in some way of the Sudetian race of Günther, but probably taller and more robust.
Very hilarious.
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