Racial anthropology and genetics of the Lebanese

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Racial anthropology and genetics of the Lebanese by Daniel (Dan’El) Asade Chuckralla.

Editor's note: Based on very popular demand, I've decided to publish this rough translation without review because I've not had time to edit or review it after translation. This is a temporary measure until I have time to attend to it. I apologize for publishing it while it is not ready.

Classification and distribution of human race

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Since 40,000 years, there’re five different sub-species, as product of the genetics evolution pursued by each group:

  • Sub-species Capeids of South Africa (name originated in the Cape of Good Hope)
  • Sub-species Congoids of Sub-Sahara: Central Africans, Dwarfs and Ethiopians (those’ re mixed with Caucasians)
  • Sub-species Caucasians

I Mediterranean

  • Western: Represented in Spain, Portugal, Sardinia, coast of Morocco and Tunis. The Atlantic Mediterranean is a sub-race
  • Eastern: Represented on the Black Sea Coast, in the w. of Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Aegean Sea of Greece and Turkey
  • Dinarized: Those result from the mixture of Mediterranean + dinarics or Armenians or alpine. Represented more than 60% in the Southern Italy, 40% in Turkey, 30% in western Syria, Lebanon and Central Italy, 15% in northern Italy.
  • Arabia: More than 60% in Arabia,55% from Egypt to Syria, north of Sudan,30% in Iraq, more than 60% in the eastern Jews (Sefaradim)

2.- DINARICS: More than 60% in the Balkans and North of Italy,30% in Check Rep., Slovakia, Austria and Ukraine.

3.- ALPINES. More than 60% in Luxembourg, Hungary and Switzerland.

4.- LADOGANS: Represented by the natives of Russia

5.- NORTHERN: Represented on the British Islands, Scandinavia, Holland and Belgium more than 60% in Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Finland and Baltic’s Countries, 55% in Austria and Russia.

6.- ARMENIODS: More than 60% in Armenia,15% in Syria, Lebanon and North of % in Western Jews (Ashkenazim)

7.- TURANOIDS: Hybridised with Mongoloids, more than 60% of Kazakhstan, % in Hungary and Turkey.

8.- IRANO-AFGANOIDS: More than 60% in Iran and Afghanistan, 40% in Iraq and 15 % in Turkey.

9.- INDICUS: Represented in Pakistan and North of India.

10.- DRAVIDICS: Represented in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka.

  • .Sub-species Australoids
  • Sub-species Mongoloids: Represented in China, Korea and Japan

CAUCASOIDS: THE WHITE RACE

The named white race or Caucasoid is compounded by four main sub-races: Armenian, Northern, Western Mediterranean and Lapped. The origin of the groups derived such as Alpine or Dinarics, etc. is the mixture between those main branches.

So the source of the race Caucasoid begun at the of the Glacial Era and in the beginning of Mesolithic Era.

RACIALS CHARACTERISTIC IN GENERAL

Alpine: They’re brachicephalics, with rounded face. In the western the cranium is low, while in the eastern is high.

ARABOIDS: Dolycocephalics, cranium low, eye orbit inclined, narrow and inclined front, is different of iberoid race because has specific facial dashes: rhomboid face. Eyes of almonds colour, "Semitic smile" (conditioned by a deep canine pit).This race in former epochs was a sub-race formed of the Syrian, common between the farmer of the Fertile Crescent. Today is typical of the Jews.

NORTHERN: Light eyes like the hair, low and dolycocephalic cranium, thin, with a narrowish face equal to the nose.

ARMENIANS: Brachycephalics, with the same form of head than the dinarics but with a longer nose. Abundant hair down in body and in the face,very high nose’s root, convex, with depressed.

The difference between Armenians and Dinarics is the following: in the Armenians it is presented Iranian-afghan race that provides Mediterranean, brachycephalized by their mixtue with the Alpine.

ATLANTHO-MEDITERRANEAN: High, right nose, dolycocephalics

DINARICS: Very tall, brown, high head and brachycephalic, very long face, long and more or less inclined nose, similar to people from Near East. Plain occipital . Short arms

IBERIOIDS: Dolycocephalics with low cranium, dark skin and lows. Narrow face. Horizontal orbit.

IRANOIDS: High head and dolycocephalic, long and thin face. Very influenced by the race .Abundant black or dark brown, curly, hair down in the body and beard, brown eyes. The nose ever is high and prominent, their profile sometimes is right almost convex, the depressed and low declined with moderate density and strong curvature in the wing.

LAPOIDS: Lows, high cranium and dolycocephalic, broad face, very little jaw-bone and small nose.

MEDITERRANEANS SOUTHERN AND EASTERN: Very similar to the Iberiods but with high head.

NORICS: Brachycephalics, blonds, plain occipital, were northern that were brachycephalized by the Dinarics.

FIGURES

Figure 1: Scando-northern racial type

" 2: Faelish racial type

" 3: Western Mediterranean racial type

" 4: Dinaric racial type

" 5: Eastern Baltic racial type

" 6: Eastern Alpine racial type

" 8: Eastern Mediterranean racial type

" 9: Armenian or Armeniod racial type

Figure 10: Araboid racial type

figure 7 is blank it should be (I think) the Iranoids

GENERAL RACIAL CHARECTERISTICS OF THE SYRIAN

The Syrian region (It includes the Republic of Lebanon and Arabic Republic of Syria) is divided anthropometrically in four regions:

Lebanon, Alawite, Damas, Homs-Hama-Alep

Map.

Metric Analysis

Height

Lebanon

1.67

Alawite

1.67

Damas

1.67

Homs-Hama-Alep

1.69

Arabic

1.64

Samaritans

1.70

Armenians

1.66

Greeks

1.66

Turkish

1.68

Curds

1.70

Syrians and Armenians have higher trunk compared to the total height

Breadth size

Homs-Hams-Aleppo have the largest torso among the Syrians

HEAD’S LONGITUDE

All Syrians have short longitude, Lebanon and Alawite have the lowest values

Lebanon

183

Alawite

183.7

Damacus

188.4

Homs-Hama-Alep

186.2

Armenians

184.3

Greeks

187.2

Head’s large

All Syrians’ re hipsicephalics

Large-height head’s index

All Syrians’ re metriocephalics. Lebanon and Alawite have lower and larger head than Damacus and Homs-Hama-Aleppo.

BIZIGOMATIC DIAMETER

This sign is different in Armenians and Syrians. Damacus has the narrowest face while Alawite has the largest.

Lebanon

138.1

Alawite

139.55

Damacus

137.30

Homs-Hama-Aleppo

138.75

Armenians

142.84

Samaritans

132.00

Mesopotamia’s

133.00

Greeks

139.90

Bulgarians

137.00

Face’s height

The Syrians have a moderated — long face. The northern part of Syria has higher values than the southern.

Lebanon

122.35

Alawite

124.00

Damacus

122.80

Homs-Hama-Aleppo

126.40

Armenians

127.96

Bulgarians

117.14

Mesopotamia’s

114.50

Samaritans

120.00

Turkish

124.00

Caucasus

125.00

FACIAL INDEX

Lebanon

88.26

Alawite

88.94

Damacus

89.26

Homs-Hama-Aleppo

91.74

Armenians

89.74

Bulgarians

85.47

MINIMUM FRONTAL DIAMETER

Homs-Hama-Aleppo has the narrowest value, while Lebanon the

widest.

BIGONIAL DIAMETER

BIGONIAL DIAMETER

Lebanon

107.46

Alawite

107.82

Damacus

106.66

Homs-Hama-Aleppo

108.46

NOSE’S HEIGHT

Homs-Hama-Aleppo has a very long nose. The other three regions don’t have any differences among them. The Armenians have the longest nose, even H-H-A. Generally the Syrians have very long noses such as the region of Balkans, Minor Asia and the Caucasus.

Lebanon

55.18

Alawite

55.50

Damacus

54.78

Homs-Hama-Aleppo

57.00

Armenians

59.93

Greeks

52.3

Arabic

50.24

Turkish

52.00

NOSE’S WIDTH

The diameter between the nostrils is moderated in Syrians, but Homs - Hama - Aleppo has the narrowest value while the Armenians the widest.

Lebanon

34.79

Alawite

34.67

Damacus

34.85

Homs - Hama- Aleppo

33.59

Armenians

37.96

Greeks

35.96

Arabic

35.10

NOSE INDEX

Syrians and Armenians’ re leptorhines, Homs - Hama - Aleppo hiperleptorhine.

Lebanon

63.30

Alawite

62.74

Damacus

63.26

Homs-Hama- Aleppo

58.66

Armenians

63.80

Greeks

68.49

Arabic

74.48

METRIC ANALYSIS CONCLUSIONS

Lebanon and Alawite don’t have any differences. Lebanon as Alawite has more differences with Homs-Hama- Aleppo than with Damacus

Lebanon and Alawite are distinguished from Damacus, because the first has a trunk large trunk, narrow face, short nose and narrow mandible.

Lebanon and Alawite’ re different from Homs - Hama - Aleppo, because the later is taller, has a higher head, low frontal diameter, very long face, narrow nose and wider mandible.

H-H-.Aleppo is characterised of Damacus because the first are higher,have a wider thorax, shorter and narrower head, long and tight face, long and narrow nose.

Respect to the homogeneity of regions, we could said:

Damacus is larger than H-H- Aleppois larger than Lebanon and equal to Alawite.

SYRIANS AND ARMENIANS COMPARED

Armenians shown more relation with Lebanon and Alawite than with Damacus and H - H- Aleppo. The difference between Armenians and Lebanon-Alawite, is that the first has absolute long measures (except from the height and head’s height)

The difference between the Armenians and the other regions is founded in that the latter have narrow head, tight and short face, narrower mandible and narrower nose, the latter is shorter. They’re also more dolycocephalics and akrocephalics.

The variance between Armenians and H-H-Aleppo is that the latter are higher, with narrower head and face, tight and shorter nose, more dolycocephalics and akrocephalics, leptoprosopics and leptorhines.

MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS

All the values are in percent (%)

Skin

Lebanon

Alawite

Damacus H-H-

Aleppo

Clear brown

73.17

78.40

66.60

64.70

Pale

16.70

17.70

07.80

17.60

Without speck

87.60

88.00

100.00

87.50

HAIR

Lebanon

Alawite

Damacus

H-H-Aleppo s

Armen

Quantity

50med

51me

61me

47me

72m.

head

33much

18little

39lit

25much

16lit

Quantity

55me

72me

75me

69me

66m

beard

32lit

15lit

25lit

19mu

21m

Quantity

43lit

52lit

52lit

35lit

13lit.

body

34me

37much

36me

42me

60me

Colour

49black

47black

31black

18m

35black

 

42brown

43brown

53brown

58brown

52brown

configuation

dark

dark

dark

dark

dark

wavy

68

55

67

82

95

straight

1

37

28

12

3

curly

14

8

6

6

2

EYES

Lebanon

Alawite

Damacus

H-H Aleppo

Armen

clear

         

brown

16

8

6

6

59

brown

         

blue

0.5

6

-

-

3

brown

         

Dark

         

brown

68

69

78

65

18

grey

2

2

-

6

5

brown

         

green

9

13

11

12

14

blue

4

2

-

-

-

grey-blue

1

--

6

12

1

Dark

86

79

84

77

82

Clear

14

21

16

23

18

NOSE

The Armenians have a very high % respect to the depression in the point of the nose, they’ re considered as

"Ultra-Armenioids"

A convex profile is predominant between Syrians and Armenians specially in H-H-Aleppo. Armenians have a very high root. The bridge is elevated in all. The outline is generally for both right or convex.

Depression 55med 69med. 52sbmed. 58me 74subme

nosion

(related with nose)

Profile

         

Concave

9

8

11

12

3

Right

21

8

21

-

33

Convex

53

67

58

82

60

Conc-

16

17

11

6

4

Convex

         

ROOT

Size

medium

med

med

med

med

Height Middle

59

66

52

41

37

Pronounced

28

42

41

60

56

Point

         

Elevated

71

73

38

70

11

Depressed

26

25

61

29

85

FRONT

Armenians have lower forehead than Syrians, but both have a wide forehead. The inclined forehead is practically absent in 52% of Syrians and 21% of Armenians.

Frontal

Inclination Lebanon Alawite Damacus H-H-A. Ar

Absent 65 22 42 12 21

Middle 30 56 57 87 60

Pronounced 4 20 - - 19

OCCIPITAL REGION:

The occipital in Syrians is very little developmed and the Armenians have the lowest. That implies the posterior part of the cranium is plain in nearly 100% of Syrians and Armenians.

FACIAL REGION:

The malar (is a bone note of G.E) of Armenians is prominent while in the Syrians is subnormal. Because of the bizigomatic diameter is bigger in the Armenians. The bigonial angle is very prominent in Armenians and moderated in all Syrians. The chin (a bone of the mandible) is prominent in Syrians and Armenians.

Leb Alawite Damacus H-H-A- Arm.

Malars

Submed 45 26 36 35 8

Middle 52 46 57 64 45

Pronounced 2.5 26 5 - 45

ANGLE

Bigonial

Submid 18 15 15 17 3

Middle 59 64 57 64 46

Pronounc 22 20 26 17 50

Chin

Prominence

Leb

Alawite

Damacus

H-H-A

Arm

Absent

0.6