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I've noticed many members here lack the ability to distinguish the two phenotypes, generated by two completely different ancestries:
1. Alpinid, originating from ENF, spread throughout Eurasia and North Africa
2. Reduced CM, found only among Europeans (basically), part of our aboriginal phenotypes
Even though both types are round faced (hence the pseudo-Alpinid), there are notable differences easy to spot:
1. Pigmentation: real alpinid phenotype has sallow skin tone and brown hair/eyes while reduced CM has all the normal variation of CM (brown to blonde hair, brown to blue eyes) and light skin tone
2. Nose shape: real alpinid nose is small and delicate whereas reduced CM nose lacks delicacy (it's frequently flattened and upturned)
3. Body type: real Alpinids frequently have voluptous hourglass bodies when very young, but they are almost always fat past their teens, whereas reduced CM have more masculine shapeless bodies
Using that, it's quite easy to distinguish between French reduced-CM (most of the so-caled "subnordids") and real Alpinids (who are actually a minority, if you exclude the misattributed "Alpines").
The caveat is that mixtures of Aryan and real Alpine can create pseudo-reduced-CM look, but look at nose shapes and presence of angularity.
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