Some races are unattractive due to a lack of sexual selection

[Borealis]

Inbreeding is another factor.

Arabs and Pakis are moreso. If they werent inbred they might be better looking.

[Ryuk]

Inbreeding is another factor.

Inbreeding is a positive factor for attractive rareness


If the first redheads and blondes were to breed with others, the world would be filled with swarty and unattractve individuals

[NPKTO]

and why pashtuns look different from plains people despite similar genetics.

Pashtuns have less ASI than any South Asian folks, except for Balochi people. I think some Kashmiris also look very different from most plains folks, even if they score decent ASI. Maybe it’s because they’ve more recent geneflow from Dardic groups.

[Borealis]

Pashtuns have less ASI than any South Asian folks, except for Balochi people. I think some Kashmiris also look very different from most plains folks, even if they score decent ASI. Maybe it’s because they’ve more recent geneflow from Dardic groups.

northern pashtuns are only a bit less ASI than plains people.

[lameduck]

northern pashtuns are only a bit less ASI than plains people.

Pashtuns have less ASI and more caucasus than even most Northernmost Upper cast South Asians and this shows in phenotypes.
I think when ASI decreases below a certain level its effect start decreasing rapidly e.g you will rarely find a Pashtun that look typical for gangetic plains.

[NPKTO]

northern pashtuns are only a bit less ASI than plains people.

It’s mostly Jats and Khatris though.. I guess even a little difference in ASI can create massive difference in looks. Also folks in north have more of Central Asian Eneolithic admixture, which folks in inner South Asia have less of. Steppe admixture in South Asia is very diluted in every groups when it comes to showing up in phenotype, but once you reach Northern Pakistan, you see more exotic & somewhat Euro looking folks.

[Borealis]

Pashtuns have less ASI and more caucasus than even most Northernmost Upper cast South Asians and this shows in phenotypes.
I think when ASI decreases below a certain level its effect start decreasing rapidly e.g you will rarely find a Pashtun that look typical for gangetic plains.

No. That is not what it is at all. Kashmiris have the same ASI as punjabis but look exotic compared to them. Baloch have the lowest ASI of any major group in Pakistan but as you showed some can even look south Indian. The reason is climatic adaptation to the mountains. If you check northern Pashtuns on Harappa(labelled Pathan), they are not very different from punjabis.

[Borealis]

It’s mostly Jats and Khatris though.. I guess even a little difference in ASI can create massive difference in looks. Also folks in north have more of Central Asian Eneolithic admixture, which folks in inner South Asia have less of. Steppe admixture in South Asia is very diluted in every groups when it comes to showing up in phenotype, but once you reach Northern Pakistan, you see more exotic & somewhat Euro looking folks.

As I said, this is the result of alpinization. Steppe admixture in South Asia is max like 20% for some punjabis. It definitely influences their phenotype but since it's only a small minority of their genome it will not result in them looking "European", or whatever. But for what its worth the upper castes look different to dalits, despite only being 10-20% more European-like. That alone is proof that it affects phenotype to some degree.

[Swarthy_Syndicate]

MENA are what South Asians wish they looked like

[Mopi Licinius Crassus]

this is an amazing thread based on self hate