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I don't know if any anthropologist has properly accounted for this, if so then please provide citations. The ancient Cromagnon is arguably the archetype of the modern Caucasoid man but where do the contrastive leptoprosopic and leptomorphic types with a stronger tendecy towards dolichocephaly originate at? this elongated, narrow and thin frame seems less fitted to tough environments and hence trivial to survival.
My question is this: Is this a product of sexual selection which happens to be parallel to each other(such as the case of the Mediterranean and the classic Nordic types)? Coon's Mediterranean hypothesis appeared plausible for it's time but advances in genetics divulged it's shortcomings. Both of the aforementioned types are remotely separated but coexist and share territory with related more ancestor-like individuals; in the north it's Phalian, Borreby and Bruen and in the south it is the southern-Cromagnid varieties and Alpine, it appears likely that these slender and more fine-featured races are unrelated ramifications that have underwent stronger sexual selection than it's counterparts, and the paucity of metrically pure Halstatt Nordics could suggest that it's a more recent development in northern Europe. Maybe someone who knows more about this could enlighten me.
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