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1.) Nordic genes for depigmentation come from Central Asia, not Europe or West Asia (where the Mediterranean race lived). The first population to carrynthese genes was phylogeneticaly connected to Amerindians, not Meds. No tested remains in West Eurasia have had blond hair genes prior to 8,000 years B.C. In central Asia blond hair is at least 16,000 years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afonto...fontova_Gora_3
Phenotypic analysis shows that Afontova Gora 3 carries the derived rs12821256 allele associated with blond hair color in Europeans, making Afontova Gora 3 the earliest individual known to carry this derived allele.[15]
2.) Mediterraneans lack the genes for lactose tolerance and tall stature which differentiate Nordics from Mediterraneans. These genes, like the genes for blond hair, come from north Central Asia, where there are no Meds.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...odern-man.html
3.) Y-DNA analysis has confirmed that Southwestern Europeans have admixture from Nordics, which they got from Bronze Age and Iron Age invaders. Therefore, any cranial similarities which are not coincidental between Northern and Southern Europeans are entirely due to admixture with Indo-Europeans. Mediterraneans have cranial similarities with the least specialized Nordics (such as Halstatt), while lacking the metabolic genes which truly define the Nordic race and are now traced to its Siberian homeland (lactose tolerance, blond hair).
4.) There are a number of cranial and dental (non-mendelian) dissimilarities between Meds and Nordics that are not reflected in binary metrical measurements.
5.) Northern and Southern Europeans are genetically different from eachother and do not form a single population the way other races (such as East Asians) do.
http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetic...l.pgen.0020143
6.) Northern Europeans have genetic affinities to Amerindians, which is lacking in pure Meds.
7.) Nordics lack any copies of genes for malaria resistance (which Meds have), or susceptibility to Med diseases such as Kaposi's sarcoma. Despite the fact that malaria was, until relatively recently, widespread across Europe from North to South, and West Eurasia.
Tldr; Nordics are highly evolved depigmented Amerindians from Siberia with some Med admixture (among other things), not depigmented Meds.
Meds are depigmented Middle Easterners and who have some Nordic, and other admixtures.
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