Average Spaniard Male
Average Spaniard Female
Average French Male
Average French Female
Average Irish Male
Average Irish Woman
Average English Man
Average English Woman
Average Russian Man
Average Russian Woman
Average German Male
Average German Woman
Average Polish Male
Average Polish Woman
Average Romanian Male
Average Romanian Female
Average Greek Male
Average Greek Female
Average Italian Man
Average Italian Woman
Average Swedish Man
Average Swedish Female
Average Finnish Man
Average Finnish Female
Average Latvian and Lithuanian Female
Average Swiss Man
Average Swiss Woman
Average Welsh Woman
Hungarian (Magyar) Man
Hungarian Woman
Average Austrian Man
Average Austrian Female
Average Czech Man
Average Czech Woman
Average Ukrainian Man
Average Ukrainian Woman
Average Serbian Man
Average Serbian Woman
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October 26, 2009 at 1:23 PM
Dragon Horse
Added Welsh and Swiss Composites.
October 30, 2011 at 7:29 PM
Pirate4eva
Do you have a commentary on the process by which you built all of these averages?
Is there a place to find it? I did some scoping out of your site but couldn’t find it..
Thanks, I think this is all quite fascinating – great job =)
April 6, 2010 at 2:35 AM
sania sharma
very good work
May 20, 2010 at 4:57 AM
Sue
These are amazing!
This is exactly what I was looking for.
Would you be interested in doing an average of Scottish males and females?
May 20, 2010 at 6:46 AM
Rasfarengi
Not really, I don’t think it is going to differ significantly from the Welsh and English one. Probably just the Welsh and Irish combined or Welsh and English. Unlike Ireland, Scotland has got significant Germanic gene flow, so I would expect they would look like 1/3 Irish and 2/3 English…roughly.
June 26, 2010 at 5:01 AM
vika14
Wow, very interesting!
Though I don’t think that average female face of Lithuania and Latvia would look the same.
January 14, 2012 at 9:59 PM
sviestsunogas
agree!
June 26, 2010 at 10:29 AM
Dragon Horse
I looked at enough pictures of Baltic people and I’ve done this enough to get a feel for how the faces will turn out before hand. Sorry, but there might be a difference is Latvians and Lithuanians, but it won’t be enough to really show up on an average…when I combined both faces it looked almost to be a sister of the Russian…that is not coincidence, the genetic difference between Eastern Balts and Slavs is very small.
February 9, 2011 at 7:03 PM
luminescent
russians and balts are two different nationalities… i’m not sure where you got that info. latvians actually look nothing like russians: women tend to be taller and their features are more western european… just different. there’s not much genetic similarities than russians and finnish or norwegians. they are all different groups.
you also seem to be looking only at northern-european type of russians. as i mentioned in the other comment, it depends which region you go to. there’s mixing with tatars, mixing with southern nationalities, mixing with asians. they might be subtle differences but i’m just saying not all russians look like that blonde woman on here. and they definitely dont look the same as balts.
July 6, 2010 at 1:25 PM
prodigal
Great pics. Thank you!
I am quite surprised to see such a greater degree of resemblance between english and frenchman. Contrary to cultural depiction they look most similar to each other. Eventhough according to logical reasoning it might be true.
Both has roman + celtic + germanic geneflow.
July 6, 2010 at 1:28 PM
prodigal
By the way english average remind me Mel Gibson!
July 6, 2010 at 1:30 PM
Dragon Horse
I think the English one looks like Jason Statham. I also don’t think the French and English look that much a like, in reality there is little phenotypical varation in Europe, the biggest divergence is North to South…but if you move laterally not too much…maybe a bit of a break from Slavic nation to Germanic…but not a lot.
August 4, 2010 at 1:28 PM
angelo
What was your process in getting these results ? And do one for Brazil, results would be interesting due to all the racial mixing…
December 8, 2010 at 11:16 PM
Carlos
Very interesting blog. Thank you…
Just one thing: the only correct adjective to be applied to people from Spain is “Spanish” while “Spaniard” is a noun. Hence “Spanish female/male” not “*Spaniard female/male” (which sounds really weird to a European and plainly incorrect to anyone aware of grammatic rules). I know the adjective Spanish is often misused -and thus may lead some to confusion- in common NAmE usage but perhaps using the proper terms may help clarify who is Spanish and who is not.
Thank you from Spain.
January 28, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Rasfarengi
Carlos:
Thanks, but I’m aware of the grammar of my own language. Thank you.
The issue is that I’m American and primarily write for an American audience. What Europeans consider “strange” is not my concern. In the U.S. “Spanish” is is usually used as an adjective and a noun for a “Hispanic/Latino”. This is especially true in the American south. I did not want to confuse my primary audience.
February 5, 2011 at 5:17 PM
qwer
I am flattered because you’ve got a word to difference both things but i couldn’t help wondering if your primary audience can already spot that country on a map…
I mean, you know, people talk on corners and all that stuff.
February 6, 2011 at 2:27 AM
Ed White
Carlos is correct.
If you intend to address an American audience (speaking American English), the proper form of the description is “Spanish male” and “Spanish female”.
February 11, 2011 at 4:46 AM
Andres
Spaniard? WTF!
January 28, 2011 at 2:23 AM
Scott
Fascinating. Thanks.
Is this field called aesthetic biometrics? Can you recommend a good textbook or primer on this subject?
In Italy, I noticed a huge difference in the female facial structure as I travelled from north to south. What do you think?
January 28, 2011 at 10:23 AM
Rasfarengi
Scott:
Yes that is the area of study. I’m not sure of the textbook. I would ask Dienekes at http://dienekes.blogspot.com/
He might be able to help out.
February 5, 2011 at 8:03 PM
dominique
Hello, I came across this and was really curious on your method. I am not sure if you mentioned it somewhere – I apologize if you did and you have to repeat yourself- but I was curious how many images you used on average for each photo and what was the source for the images.
This is fascinating.
February 5, 2011 at 8:49 PM
Johnny
I was actually able to guess some of them! Kuddos to me
February 6, 2011 at 4:36 AM
Rasfarengi
dominique:
I used this site: http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/average
I used no one I thought was under 20 and no one I thought was over 50. I used any internet source I could to get about 15-20 pictures each composite. The hardest thing is finding that many pictures of good frontal shots. Most people take pictures at an angle.
It is also not always easy to find pictures of every nationality. At times I would use Google Image and type in the 10 most common last names for a nationality. For Latin America, where names are shared, I would use the most common last names for that country and put the country name in the search. I would try to verify that the person is at least in that country or from it (not easy). That was especially tricky with the UK (English, Welsh, etc) and Irish.
Strangely for some nationalities it was easier to find men than women or vice versa. For example, very easy to find pictures of Italian men, but not women. It is very easy to find pictures of French women, but not men, etc.
Anyway, for every composite I think I viewed at least a couple of thousand photos.
February 7, 2012 at 8:57 AM
Julian Oldmeadow
Hi there. I like your blog. I’m a social psychologist based in the UK and I am doing related research that involves collecting many faces of men from as many different countries as possible. I don’t know whether you have saved files with the pictures you used for the facial composites, or if you’d be interested in sharing, but if so please get in touch. My email is jao501@york.ac.uk.
Thanks a lot.
February 7, 2011 at 4:57 AM
Peter
You are missing ones of the most beautiful women on earth, like women from Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Croatia …..
February 7, 2011 at 7:08 AM
Rasfarengi
Peter:
I agree, but it is hard to get enough good pictures of them, maybe I can look at mail order bride sites…
I’m interested to see how Southern Slavs look actually. I’m guessing somewhere between Greeks, Romanians, and Northern Slavs, but more toward the former.
June 19, 2011 at 3:49 PM
Kristiyan
No such thing. Most of the greeks have dark skin, because their land of origin is Ethiopia. So they look absolutely different from the slavs, which are quite white. Bulgarians are not slavs, they are separate ethnic group with land of origin Pamir (may be), and macedonians are actually 100% bulgarians. The modern “macedonian” nation is created because of political reasons, but these “macedonians” have bulgarian DNA and they speak bulgarian dialect.
February 7, 2011 at 7:20 AM
Paco Jones
The english woman average…is it a joke? They are ugly as hell…
February 7, 2011 at 7:44 AM
Rasfarengi
@Paco:
Sorry, but I was not under the impression that Brits were known for their outstanding beauty, in Europe or anywhere else. I used the same technique with them as I did with all of these. “It is what it is”…
February 7, 2011 at 7:54 AM
Paco Jones
Rasfarengi: if you can put that technique in a pot, you´ll become millionaire
February 7, 2011 at 8:58 AM
Dragon Horse
updated with Austrians.
February 8, 2011 at 7:57 AM
Hurkunde
Wow!
February 8, 2011 at 9:28 AM
Notta
This is very fascinating! Do you possibly have one for males from Scandinavia?
February 8, 2011 at 10:21 AM
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February 8, 2011 at 12:00 PM
schoschie
Hi, very interesting. What is the source of these composites, i.e. who performed this research? Some background would be cool. Thx!
February 8, 2011 at 6:31 PM
eda
don’t forget the turks.
February 9, 2011 at 6:17 AM
JjuanrRani
I think the spanish woman i´s only the Letizia Ortiz with some trash and noise on hair!!! ¬¬
February 25, 2011 at 7:48 PM
Blackbird
I thought the same!
February 9, 2011 at 7:05 AM
Rade Martinović
Hey, I’m too interested in Souther Slavs/Albanians – people from Balkans. I too believe what you’ve said – that the average face would look like a mix of Romanians, Greeks and other Slavs.
What do you use as a image sources? Maybe Facebook search could help?
Anyways, I am not aware of any mail order website with brides from Balkans, and using such a site would result in unrealisticaly beautiful woman, because all pictures on sites like these are Photoshop processed.
February 9, 2011 at 12:37 PM
SF
Are you planning to do a Dutch composite picture?
Just curious.
Good work
February 9, 2011 at 1:01 PM
Carles
Please update with catalan people! I want to compare with the spaniard one. Thanks a lot.
February 9, 2011 at 2:14 PM
William
The appareance is the same, but I know that the catalans are more tacaños, gilipollas y pierden aceitazo como tú. All that only for the catalans that are independist and comunist way of thinking like you.
February 10, 2011 at 5:14 AM
inguma
I can see spanish people is really polite when it comes to discuss about race and culture.
February 10, 2011 at 1:22 PM
J
Inguma, It’s not an issue of politness when discussing. The real problem is discussing about race in Spain, since there is no significant genetic variance between the different regions in this country.
It’s a matter of worry that some people try to use race or ethnicity as a way of feeling superior (that´s called racism, and History has taught us the consecuences of such an idea).
In Cataluña some political parties believe that “catalanes” are somehow a different race or ethnicity from the rest of spaniards.
February 11, 2011 at 6:05 PM
Fernando
Me temia que leyendo los posts me encontraría algo así. Dejad los nacionalismos joder! hace que parezcamos gilipollas de cara al resto del mundo. Very nice work by the way.
February 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM
Antonio
Esto es más falso…joé, no sé como la gente se puede creer una cosa así…
February 9, 2011 at 1:20 PM
Dragon Horse
Please see my post from February 6, 2011 at 4:36 AM.
I am not doing any more composites in the next couple of months, too busy. I am especially not doing any of very small groups as it is almost impossible to find enough satisfactory pictures, so Catalans are definitely not going to happen. Feel free to do so yourself. I’ve thought about Dutch, but to be honest I don’t think they will look a lot different from German, just a bit “lighter” and longer headed, it is like Germans if you eliminate anyone from the South (the Alpine and Southern Rhine element).
February 9, 2011 at 1:20 PM
Antonio
Para Carles,
Están comparando paises, no regiones de paises
February 9, 2011 at 2:42 PM
SF
Ah well, I’ll keep my curiosity.
A question, did you exclude from your averaging faces that are of “mixed ethnicity”, the kind of people that you can’t really label easily?
For Scott, in Italy there is a difference between North and South, the northern average would look a bit closer to the Swiss or Austrian average, and the South a bit closer to the Spanish or Greek average, for both males and females.
PS: It is funny that the Russian and Polish woman average both come out with a lot of make up.
February 9, 2011 at 2:52 PM
Dragon Horse
SF: there are no mixed race people in the European or Asian samples.
Obviously IN THE Americas samples African Americans, most Hispanic groups are by default “mixed race”.
February 9, 2011 at 6:43 PM
roher6
siempre dando la nota Carles…a escampar la boira ¿no?
February 9, 2011 at 7:36 PM
Dragon Horse
luminescent:
I’m not about to argue with you, because you don’t know what you are talking about.
1) Phenotype and genetic relativeness are not necessarily closely correlated.
2) I am aware that their is variation in appearance of the groups you mentioned, I never denied that.
3) Russians, especially North Eastern Russians heavily overlap genetically with Fins and Estonians, because many of those Russians are just Slavivied Finnic populations who adopted Slavic culture and somewhat mixed with them.
I am also aware all Russians are not the same and their is variation in appearance. I’ve actually been to Russia once, in 1996.
Please don’t write nonsense on my blog again without backing it up with some evidence or your post will be deleted.
Spacibo.
My evidence is here:
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/6818/neura12.png
Please also read this blog:
http://eurogenes.blogspot.com/2010/11/genetic-structure-of-north-eurasians.html
Don’t comment again until you have read it and reviewed the charts and graphs.
February 9, 2011 at 9:28 PM
Tim Shelley
Mexicans and Vemezuela are de hottest in the world
February 9, 2011 at 11:42 PM
Amy
Hmm. I’m a little surprised that more Slovak nationalities aren’t portrayed here. I was hoping to find my fellow Czech faces, but they’re absent.
February 9, 2011 at 11:45 PM
Amy
Hehe…sorry Drags, I meant this to sound less complain-y. I’m only Czech by blood, but I’m told my face is strikingly Slovak (I’ve even been approached by tourists from Prague that thought I was with their group!). I was curious to know what my family’s “average” would look like.
February 10, 2011 at 12:15 AM
odocoileus
Congrats on your new found fame among the angry-white-dudes-who-can’t- get-laid. I was wondering if Roissy knew whose work he was championing. Judging from his hostile comments, he hasn’t taken it well.
He seems to laboring under the impression that the European gene pool had no African component til you got there.
Congrats also on the new wife. I guess pictures would be too much to ask.
February 10, 2011 at 5:06 AM
inguma
It is not correct to say average spaniard. In the state of Spain there are many countries like the Basque Country which is not spanish. Also Galicia has a strong Celtic heritage. It would be more or less like Great Britain, Scotland, and Welsh.
February 10, 2011 at 1:33 PM
J
Spain is not a state with many countries inside, even if this is your desire. It´s a country itself, since 500 years ago. Maybe you don’t like it, but you can’t change History according to your ideas. If you like to give lessons of History you should study it first, and not telling historical lies.
February 10, 2011 at 5:16 AM
Dragon Horse
inguma: I don’t care. Do your own averages. I have explained how to do them. I’m the one who spends the man hours doing the composites, you just complain. When you put in some work you can advise me how to do things.
odocoileus:
What’s up? Yeah I know what Roissy and his folks are about. Anyway, no pictures at this time. Sorry.
February 10, 2011 at 5:25 AM
inguma
I´m not complaining, but telling how things are. If you want to do a serious study you should learn a little bit more. regards.
February 10, 2011 at 1:26 PM
J
inguma, it’s you who should learn. You are a racist, and this is your problem.
February 11, 2011 at 9:15 AM
inguma
if there is no race, what´s the point of this study. You are wasting your time.
February 10, 2011 at 5:18 AM
Dragon Horse
Amy, feel free to do your own composites. It is too hard for me to maintain the quality I do and look for pictures for such small populations that are face forward, minimum smile, and non-famous (no actors or models). Sorry. Most of this falls to geography, I bet a Slovak looks something like an Eastern German/Hungarian (1/3) and Polish (2/3)…something like that.
February 10, 2011 at 9:22 AM
pyuk
those of you who discuss about russians.. have you seen the size of that massive country, hell your country is probably the size of a village compared to russia
there are regions with only russian population ..very fair people, mixed regions mostly tourist destinations , mixed white with mongols you can see that in siberian russia everywhere
i myself i’m mixed russian granmother from white russian ancestry from north region and granfather from north caucasus natives so called shapsug or cherkes
February 10, 2011 at 1:59 PM
mery
I am a catalan, and so are my parents and grandparents and grangrandparents… I tell you, we look absolutely the same as the rest of the people from Spain!! You may argue about the culture etc. but pretending we are different races is just too nazi… we are all mediterranean!
February 11, 2011 at 9:22 AM
inguma
So, if you are mediterranean, why should you make one of Greece for example and one of Spain? Could someone answer it?
February 10, 2011 at 5:23 PM
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February 10, 2011 at 7:25 PM
Steve Sailer
Thanks.
Lots of work went into these.
Something like a college yearbook would seem like a good source (with a class bias, of course) for a set standardized by age, but few formal portraits are done with the subject looking square into the camera like a mug shot, so your catch-as-catch-can approach seems about as good as can be done.
Thank you.
February 10, 2011 at 8:09 PM
tensile
hello, very interesting study. How many pictures have you used for each composite?
February 11, 2011 at 9:22 AM
Dragon Horse
inguma:
Regional variation does not mean clearly defined races/subspecies. Some of this is a language difference though. In American English we do not consider a “race” to be an ethnic group. We don’t say “English Race” or “Polish Race”, some Europeans use the term in this way. We refer to race as “Continental groups”.
February 11, 2011 at 9:26 AM
Dragon Horse
inguma:
If you are Greek or Spaniard you have different regional averages, that does not mean the group is clearly seperated.
A Tiger is clearly not a Lion. There is no overlap. There is non regional variation in Cat species that slowly merge into each other.
Humans are very different.
If you go from Southern Africa to Sweden and take pictures of 10 people every 10 kms you can easily see that their is a continum of features that slowly merge into each other.
The biggest break will be in deserts and the Mediterranean, but even then you can find intermediate populations that allowed some gene flow.
So while Spain may have a different average appearance than Italy it is pretty clear genetically and phenotypcially that their is heavy overlap between Italians and Spaniards. So can not draw a clear line and say “here is a Spaniard and here is a Italian” like you can between a Lion, House cat, and a Tiger.
February 11, 2011 at 9:49 AM
inguma
you should take a look at the work of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza. Regards.
February 11, 2011 at 10:04 AM
Dragon Horse
Imguma:
I have. I have 3 of his books and what I said does not really contradict anything he says. He does not believe in “real races”.
I’m not even going to argue with you about this because it is clear you do not understand his work.
He has talked about substructures even at a village level in Europe, but that in no way contradicts what I said, in fact he has made similar statements to me.
Please reread his work (not just snippets of his work on blogs).
“The classification into races has proved to be a futile exercise for reasons that were already clear to Darwin.” Cavalli-Sforza, Menozzi, & Piazza, 1994, p. 19
He makes similar statements in “Genes, Peoples, and Languages”, which I own.
As far as Europe, Europe has very little genetic diversity, especially the further North and West you go. Although their is population substructure, especially South to North and a bit from East to West, it is kind of ridiculous to say there is a Spanish and Italian race, because on any genetic charts Italians (especially Northern ones) overlap considerably with Swiss, Spaniards, and French. Southern Italians overlap pretty well with Greeks. Germans overlap pretty well with Western Slavs, some French, and obviously other German groups, almost all the way to the UK. Beligians group very close to the French and Brits.
The reality is that the population movement that occurred during the Roman Empire and the fact borders have constantly changed in the last 2,000 years has not given European nationalities enough time to actually form distinct isolated genetic groups.
Just look at this:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/files/genmap1.jpg
If you look at Europeans on a map with other NonEuropean populations you will see just how closely EUropeans are related to each other:
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/6818/neura12.png
Look how little genetic distances there is between different European populations:
That’s all I have to say about this. Next time you post something like this on my site without providing some scientific evidence or at least some citation from someone who is considered an expert in the field of population genetics your post will be deleted.
Thanks.
February 11, 2011 at 5:56 PM
Inguma
like this? http://www.aranzadi-zientziak.org/fileadmin/docs/Munibe/1988169177.pdf
published by Aranzadi which is a well known magazine. Which, by the way is based in your favourite book: “Genes, Peoples, and Languages”
And I have never mentioned the word race.
Best regards.
February 12, 2011 at 3:11 AM
Zeitgeist
Generally I think that this kind of digital “averaging” of European looks is useless. for 2 reasons
1. The white/Caucasian phenotype of all europeans is too limited to indicate any specific features for particular nations if you take away the characteristic features that indeed occur in different populations. thus all these images are very nice and attractive and similar to each other
2. The features that make a difference between populations are distinct and strongly emphasized e.g. prominent noses, jaws, eye-sockets and all facial features by the Iberians. In an “averaged” digital picture they disappear. Thus a very untrue representaion of the Spanish or French
February 12, 2011 at 4:32 AM
Dragon Horse
Zeiteist:
I’m not sure.
You could be right about Caucasians, but for my Asian samples. Especially the Japanese, Chinese, and Korean (the first sets I did) my Mainland Chinese friend and Japanese ex-wife both guessed them all 100% correct!!!
The Europeans are more difficult I agree, mainly because the gap in most European populations is very small. For example a lot of people guessed the Russian or confused it with the Polish, so at least they could see they were “Slavic”. Some people got the Irish right away, the Greek and Italian were confused a lot, but people usually only confused them for each other, so once again they got the region, but the exact nationality was a problem.
I honestly just think that because most European groups have a very limited genetic distance from each other (compared to other populations of people IN Asia and Africa) it is just harder to tell them apart.
Spaniards, Portuguese, and Northern Italians group together and overlap on genetic maps. Germans, Brits, Danes, Belgians overlap. Germans, French, Austrians, and Swiss overlap (along with some Hungarians who are a bit closer to Slavs than Germans, but they still fall in between). Eastern Slavs tend to overlap. Southern Slavs overlap with each other and Hungarians. Greeks/Cypriots/Turks, and I’m guessing some Southern Slavs overlap.
I think you get the picture.
Compare that to East Asians, were Japanese have not got much immigration since Kofun Period (250-538AD).
The Koreans have not had much immigration since the Unified Silla (7th century AD).
The Chinese have a history of expansion and absorption of “barbarians” mostly Turkic and Mongolic in the North, and Yuan and a few others in the South)…the Chinese Y Chromosome is fairly stable across Han regions, but the MtDNA is all over the place, which I think causes the difference in appearance (and the genetic cline) between North and South China.
Still there is a general Southern look and Northern look that my friends can recognize and although the Northern look might overlap with Mongols and Koreans and the Central Look with Japanese, and the Southern look with Vietnamese or Thai they usually can tell the groups apart.
Europe is a lot smaller place and historically there have been more major migrations in recent history and mixing among those populations to some extent. Most borders in Europe are artificial realities based on politics more than genes anyway…
February 13, 2011 at 6:34 AM
Migels
Well, what goes for the Latvian/Lithuanian average, then I’d say they’ve got something really wrong… I live in Latvia and I can tell you that the average Latvian woman looks way more better then that picture…
February 14, 2011 at 11:44 AM
ok
You might be interested to see more average faces here:
http://www.myfaceid.com/Statistic.aspx
Those are automatically generated from famous people databases.
February 15, 2011 at 11:20 PM
Gabi
Wow! I hope you would make one of these for the brazilians!
We are so mixed up with all the other “races” I got really curious about how the “average” would turn out.
xoxo,
Gabi Barbará
February 16, 2011 at 9:28 AM
Dragon Horse
Updated with Czech Composites.
February 16, 2011 at 1:51 PM
Sam
I’m working to put together a presentation on racial and ethnic disparities in public health for a course at the UT Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health. I came across your composites and found them to be the most striking examples of the diversity of our human family. I would like to incorporate them into the presentation to challenge learners about the notion of “race.” Of course, I would like to have the images correctly attributed, and I would be interested in learning a bit more about their creation. Please feel free to contact me at this e-mail address.
Thank you for your time.
February 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM
David
Hi, and thank you for sharing these images. What I find so striking is just how beautiful the human race is.
cheers.
February 18, 2011 at 1:01 PM
ivandrago
Wow great job. In my opinion average faces fit to reality, especially men. Russian face remind me pres. Medvedev LOL. To discussion about russians:
Russia is a big country true, but ethnic russians – the core of nation (like germans in germany, swedes in sweden) who takes 80% of total russian population, came to Siberia, Volga, and Far East from Northwestern and Central Russia (historical russian motherland – territory from Novgorod to Moscow). It was like Englishmen who came to north america or australia, some of them probably mixed with native people, but majority not. I grew up in Siberia, so i know what i am talking about.
Average ethnic russian looks like polish or baltic, may be finnish, no wonder that genetic relations of these nations so close. Most common russian hair color light brown or dark ash blond, eyes-color blue or gray. Next common hair color – brown, eye color – green. But again it is not that dark like french for example. Russians also have a lot of natural yellowish blond people, percents out of all population less than in baltic/scandinavia however probably much more than in any other part in europe. More common dark eyed/haired russians could be find in southern russians (kuban region) or in ethnic minorities (buryats, tatars and etc). Southern russians has ties to ukrainians, so they looks similar.
February 28, 2011 at 1:05 PM
Oleg
True that, mate.
BTW, sometimes i think that Rostov (my native city) is populated mostly by average Ukrainians (authenticity confirmed!))), and … average Italians if you know what i mean))).
Average Russian indeed looks like Medvedev, which is pretty ugly))) it is usefull to look in the mirror sometimes!
Average English reminds me of some British celebrity, maybe of serveral at once. There is sense of familiarity about it, that’s for sure.
I wish there were Scandinavian males (and females certainly). Wish there was some Mads Mikkelson type.
Great job, Dragon horse!
You’re the best!
February 20, 2011 at 6:39 AM
Dragon Horse
I updated with average Ukrainian Composites.
November 4, 2011 at 2:51 AM
Oleg
Thank you. Ukrainians are very similar.
February 21, 2011 at 5:59 PM
Dragon Horse
Updated with average Serbian man and woman.
February 22, 2011 at 3:32 PM
sol
i think u’ll find the average brit a bit is a bit heavier than that considering 1-3 brits in that age group is overweight.
February 22, 2011 at 3:45 PM
siobhan
they r all to goodlookin to be representative of the average person however if you average out a large number of photos you will acheive the symetrical average. Humans are attracted to symetry which is why we all find certain celebs attractive ie: cheyrl cole angelina jolie. (They have above averagly symetrical faces). The more photos added to this experiment the better looking the result. The only real representation of generalised nationality is being derived from eye colour, skin tone and hair, which could also be deduced from general stero typing. And yes smart ass i no i can’t spell.
February 22, 2011 at 4:38 PM
siobhan
as an example of my previous comment. Is u take someone whos face is disfigured and there nose is twisted to the left their eye is drooped then over lay it with 1 other face the result will be slightly less disfigured then countinue to over lay another 10 images the nose will gradually become more centred as will the other features until eventually your have a symetrical face because most of us have symetrical faces regardless of nationality.
February 22, 2011 at 8:49 PM
Justin
I’d like to use your composites in a story. I have a few questions about proper reference and how you created them and also a little about you. Is there an e-mail to contact you at? Best, justin
February 23, 2011 at 5:12 AM
Conall
Interesting stuff, I’d like to see averages of Norway and Sweden as well as Iceland to see how they measure up to the rest of Europe.
February 25, 2011 at 10:51 PM
Lyna
I wonder why “Average of Korean women”is not here
February 26, 2011 at 3:36 AM
Dragon Horse
Lyna: It is, but not in the EUROPEAN post. Look in the East/Southeast Asian post. LOL
February 26, 2011 at 12:53 PM
whydoyoulive
where’s estonian?
February 27, 2011 at 5:01 PM
Dragon Horse
Why don’t you do one? Estonia is so small as to be too difficult, especially when they likely look very similar to some Baltic/Fin hybrid…
March 1, 2011 at 10:21 AM
Dragon Horse
Updated with a Finnish and Swedish Male
July 26, 2011 at 7:39 AM
Mulukku
It is fun to see that average Finnish and Swedish females are almost like twins but male are not so close each other.
March 2, 2011 at 4:09 PM
Oleg
wonder if it is ok to post it here, here is another “average face morphing” project
http://www.faceoftomorrow.com/home.asp
March 5, 2011 at 10:48 PM
Craig
I have to say your Englishman looks like a very typical southerner. I’m pretty sure the north and the south would have different averages- the north having more angle and viking blood whilst the south is more celtic and French.
There was a study some years ago which found quite a marked genetic difference roughly along the borders of the old danelaw.
March 8, 2011 at 4:00 AM
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March 15, 2011 at 9:47 AM
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And where are the Basques?
March 15, 2011 at 12:31 PM
Dragon Horse
The Basque are wherever on your computer they will be after you do the composite yourself.
April 5, 2011 at 8:54 AM
ivandrago
Dragon Horse,
Congratulation you made almost whole “average portrait of europeans”, and IMO it fit to reality as well. If you don’t mind i could offer you pay attention also to Benelux Countries (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) total population of which almost 30 million people. IMO Dutch people composites will represent this region. Turkish composites will be nice to see too, but i am sure majority of europeans prefer to see it in “Middle Eastern, Central Asian and South Asia” section LOL.
April 7, 2011 at 12:50 AM
Dragon Horse
I will look into doing a Dutch one soon…been busy.
April 8, 2011 at 9:39 AM
Dragon Horse
Added Dutch, Belgian, and redid German female composite.
April 13, 2011 at 6:36 PM
Conall
I wouldn’t mind seeing separate composites for both northern and southern France considering both groups are somewhat different.
April 16, 2011 at 4:46 PM
Rafael Jardim
Great! unfortunately there’s no portuguese references…
April 18, 2011 at 5:13 AM
maantas
hey, dear author. Just wanted to say, i have stumbled upon this blog accidentally. After reading some responses in comets, I have to tell you: your topic is quite “sensitive” to many, so its no wonder u get lots of “angry” posts. We are not like them, and so on. so just wanted to tell you, don’t take that personalty, history, traditions and bolievs are strong in people.. no facts will help
i come myself from one small ethnic group, and i do resent similarities to some other group mentioned here, u cant escape these feelings, first u recognize them, next u can understand that its mostly history that makes u unhappy about that, and third u have to realize how ridiculous it may be. so long live peace, very interesting study and don’t get too offended by some comments here!
June 14, 2011 at 7:06 PM
Wawa
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
June 21, 2011 at 9:16 PM
Mario
It’s incredible how spaniard and mexican women are so similar!
July 25, 2011 at 10:21 AM
adra
Very interesting and fun blog! Its cool you did this. Too bad so many people are so picky and hard to please and can’t tell the difference between doing something that’s simply interesting and doing a scientfic study.
August 16, 2011 at 10:56 AM
Olga
sorry to repeat the idea, but I would rather agree with some others to say that the Russians don’t really look like russians. they’re close, but not that.. the russian typical male’s face is less rounded, more sharp, longer and narrower at the chin and wider at the top (a big wide forehead), big long ears.. with a longer and sharper nose, straight and narrow, but with a wide tip…. with wider, bigger and deeper eyes.. this one looks like current russia’s president, but he is no way typical russian, nor is his wife.
August 17, 2011 at 1:49 PM
Linda Johnsen
Awesoem! But where are the norwegians??
August 22, 2011 at 7:20 AM
Guy
Are you sure the Dutch and the Belgian pictures aren’t the exact same pictures? They look so much alike :O
September 11, 2011 at 4:27 AM
Tedi B
I was curious if you have data on the Balkans, ( I am Albanian) and was wondering if you could show us the average Albania, Croat, and Bosnian… Thanks a lot!
September 29, 2011 at 4:23 AM
Giovanna
Hi,
I would like to use these images for a scientific report. I would like to know if you did these averages and if yes, how can I cite you (i.e. what’s your name?)
September 30, 2011 at 6:03 PM
blanš
interesting, females always have lighter eyes than the males.
anyway,
great work!
November 21, 2011 at 1:55 PM
korilian
Pretty cool. I’m curious what you’d end up with if you did this for body types.
November 30, 2011 at 10:18 AM
Nicole Cardassilaris
This is very interesting imagery. Could someone please state who the artist is? If that information is available on the page, please direct me to the location.
November 30, 2011 at 10:23 AM
Nicole
I am sorry if this seems like a silly question, but I am somewhat unfamiliar with the layout of blogs and I am not exactly certain how to determine the authorship of these images. Thanks.
January 7, 2012 at 10:41 PM
none
Your composites suck and are fit for the garbage. What do you know how slavs look like?
January 14, 2012 at 9:57 PM
sviestsunogas
Uhm,how can you mix Lithuanians together with latvians….>_> theyre completely different nations….hmmmm……
January 21, 2012 at 7:47 AM
Wedding chair covers
Very Interesting averages
You can see slight differences great post will forward on to a few friends and see if they agree!
February 9, 2012 at 6:24 AM
Andriy
Well done! Thanks for ukrainians pics, i always knew that ukrainian women are beautiful, but now i see that belgian and dutch females are just WOW and also ukrainian girl is very similar to german respectively. Must admit – russian females often have freckles on their faces and i didn’t see it on photo.
I’m a school teacher, could i use these pictures to show children? Thanks for your attention.
February 13, 2012 at 11:21 AM
Nat
thank you, very well done! I’m Ukrainian (female), and i look much alike the “average pic”. also, i found Dutsch, Belgian, Italian and Finnish pics really beautiful. i think it’s very hard to make an average Russian, because the there are so many bloods and nations mixed… but the faces on this page really look like “middle Russia faces”. and what about average male Latvian pic?
February 19, 2012 at 8:03 AM
Nicole
I’d love if you did some other very mixed nations, such as Australia, Canada and New Zealand and compared them to to the USA. It would be interesting to see how different demographics in immigration affected things. Australia having a much higher Irish percentage than America, and them having more Germanic and so on.
February 23, 2012 at 2:41 AM
AnonymousArizonan
You clearly did not restrict the pictures you used to people more strictly, genetically of the group you meant to make an average for. This has caused some of your composites, if not most, to be total garbage, because it looks more like immigrants than native citizens.
There are actual, very serious and truly scientific studies on these matters. Try getting into that before making such “averages,” so you can actually be sure the pictures you use in it belong to the intended group. No one cares about national immigrants when curious what another ethnic group looks like.