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| Comparing northern with southern Koreans | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 20 2008, 01:42 PM (133 Views) | |
| black man | Apr 20 2008, 01:42 PM Post #1 |
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There are few anthropometric data of northern Koreans available to me. All four male samples I know about were reported in the first half of the last century. More data might be available from Chinese studies, where Koreans are called "Chaoxian". Northern Koreans resemble southern Koreans as for facial breadth (moderately broad-faced according to Hao, Tanabe, Arase and Shirokogorov). But apparently, they are on average a bit more low-faced due to a slightly smaller chin (Arase). Relatively small chins also seem be common in populations of the Amur that migrated to Sakhalin (the Nivkhs and Orochons mentioned by Koya). In order to find out more about northern Koreans, I created average pictures of two series of northern Koreans via morphing software. The morphed faces confirmed for me an image of average northern Koreans as broad-faced and of intermediate facial height. In contrast to southern Koreans, northern Koreans again seem to have a relatively small chin. Moreover, their faces appear to be broader both on cheekbone and on jaw level. While I found the relatively low-broad-faced component quite often in both northern and southern Koreans, I found more Koreans with an elongated face in the "southern" picture samples I collected. Furthermore, there is the tendency of southern Koreans towards a yellowish skin colour, which is shared by few northern Koreans, as far as I can judge. But all in all, I wouldn't say that northern and southern Koreans would be racially different. In fact, the nonmetric feature of massive, projecting cheekbones seems to be shared by the majority of northern and southern Koreans. Eyebrows are high in both, and both have a small mouth opening in combination with a wide bigonial diameter etc. Anyway, an interesting question is IMO whether southern Koreans received more admixture from the Yellow River region. There is no detailed information about Korean y-chromosome (or mtDNA) haplogroups which would make a direct comparison with Yellow River populations easy, yet. And northern Korean genetic data are probably restricted to samples from China, which might not be representative. |
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