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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 =)
October 7, 2013 at 5:33 PM
Mic
May I use some of your images for a german news page? For more details you can feel free to send me an e-mail. Thanks!
January 20, 2014 at 5:59 PM
miss hoe
NOTTTTT
May 27, 2018 at 7:40 PM
Wolverine 7777
man!!!! i dont know if you’re still around WordPress, but I just met your blog, and dude!!!! you’re amazing, I hope I had seen this in 2009 when I first traveled, I was looking for my “home-town” since I was very young, im american but Ive been traveling around the world trying to find this place, I stayed in russia in 2010, then in Spain and finally Italy, never crossed my mind about the south-eastern Europe countries, and that was it, thanks to you I could find most of my race was in serbia!!!! I remember looking at the pics, I was between Spain, Italy and serbia, still I couldnt choose but something made me wonder about Serbia, as a matter of fact, I went there, I fell in love, everyone is like me, in tastes and everything, I’ve been here for almost 2 years, and even if im almost 30, I think I found this country on time, my main goals in life were about enjoying life and shit, and I always believed you do it better in groups, of people you’re similar to, and I think I found my place, I hope you do also about the other european countries, just to check them out, I don’t think I will leave serbia though, I just wana see the other colors of the palette….
you’re amazing dude
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?
June 28, 2012 at 5:45 PM
Michael Rice
Scotland was made up of five races, vikings and picti in the north, gaels and briton in the south west, anglo saxons in south east, there would be for example short stocky people with round faces in the border reiver area and tall people with long faces in the norse areas
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.
April 22, 2013 at 9:19 PM
Caleigh
I’d really like to see the Scottish faces!
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!
August 15, 2016 at 5:46 PM
dėžtėj
pisk nx
September 8, 2016 at 12:24 AM
Tomlynne
All the faces have the same look to me.
February 12, 2019 at 10:56 AM
Devstantrog
Exactly! I couldn’t tell the the differences.
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 22, 2012 at 1:40 AM
Any
Your IQ must be not big enough to understand the meaning of the word “average”.
October 1, 2015 at 4:38 PM
marinatchech
Agreed. I would love to see the average of the far corners of Russia.
December 17, 2016 at 2:07 PM
Denis
Lol, even DNA and anthropological researches show that at least northern and central Russians and Baltic nationalities are almost the same thing. The fact that they have different cultures means nothing. Also, it would probably surprise you and a lot of other proponents of “mixed Russians” theory, but ethnic Russians aren’t mixed with southern (Caucasian) and Asian (Siberian) nationalities (if so, they couldn’t be considered ethnic Russians), and the chance of Tatar admixture for them is the same as for anyone from Central Europe. And it is shown by real studies and big researches (Bunak’s expedition as the largest). We could properly see that this average image shows us an ethnic Russian, and I don’t think that it should represent us something different.
February 18, 2020 at 10:57 AM
Willy
Thing is, minority nations of Russia rarely mix with Russians (or other nations, so to speak), tending to create families within their nations. Aforementioned Tatars, for example, create families mostly with other Tatars. Tatar man most likely to marry a Tatar woman and vice versa. Same true for Armenians (a lot of them in Russia), Georgians, Caucasus nations and others
July 21, 2013 at 11:14 PM
Minna
Amazing! Please do Denmark.
December 18, 2014 at 2:01 PM
arzus
Could the Latvian average be an average between both Latvian and Russian women living in Latvia? Because there is a significant number of Russian people living in Latvia and by my own experience the difference between Latvians and Russians is usually quite noticable. Noticable by a naked eye. I mean, Latvians are more Northern — wider cheeks, a bit rounder facial features and Russians are more Slavic with sharper facial features. That picture seems to have both characteristics in one image.
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.
June 23, 2012 at 11:48 PM
dfv
Actually, Britons have most of its genes shared with Spaniards. Almost 90%. There’s a lot of papers and books on that matter. That will upset some people. And “Germanic” is a linguistic term. Germans are the most mixed people of Europe for instance.
July 6, 2010 at 1:28 PM
prodigal
By the way english average remind me Mel Gibson!
October 13, 2013 at 5:53 PM
Peter Jack
He also looks the most miserable. No surprises there!
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.
October 13, 2013 at 5:57 PM
Peter Jack
The Poles and the Czechs seem to have the biggest problem with male-pattern baldness.
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!
November 21, 2012 at 9:11 PM
Tina
Because of the fact that I am American I understand where you are coming from. A person says,”Spanish” and we think Mexico or in relation Porto Rico, You say Spaniard and we think Spain. While I’ve never been outside the boarders of the U.S., (a goal however) from the various photos & history classes you can tell there has been a development of entirely two different cultures deserving a linguistic distinction. Very much how I cannot (logically) call myself German/Irish/Scottish/English-European….I am simply American. Culturally I am extremely different from the aforementioned cultures.
April 25, 2013 at 2:11 AM
Hannah
That doesn’t really change the fact that “Spaniard” is a noun, never an adjective. “Male” and “female” on the other hand, can be either. If you changed it to male/female Spaniard, that would be correct
October 13, 2013 at 6:01 PM
Peter Jack
This is about the average European face, not semantics.
February 20, 2014 at 3:03 PM
honza
Do you have an email. I am doing geneology but my features area a mix of northen eruopean and slavic was wondering if you could give a few suggestions on where to start if i send you photos
December 3, 2015 at 2:54 AM
Schmitty
Was it your intent to sound like an insufferable prick!
January 8, 2016 at 9:43 PM
Bea
We could call you guys “English” because you speak English, even though you are American. But that would still be as wrong as calling a Mexican person “Spanish”, because they speak Spanish.
Saying something wrong a million times doesn’t make it right.
Besides that, even you said that ***In the U.S. “Spanish” is is usually used as an adjective and a noun for a “Hispanic/Latino”***
Then, do we agree that “SpaniARD” is incorrect here?
Interesting work, regardless of its accuracy.
April 3, 2016 at 4:29 PM
life with IC
You’re pandering to the willfully uneducated? Referring to the ethnicity and nationality of all people from countries where Spanish is simply the national language as “Spanish” is as idiotic and unpardonable as referring to us, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders etc ALL as “English.” God forbid you should have to force those ignorant American southerners (I don’t think they are all ignorant but you do) to put two and two together, that in this context, a Spanish Male mans someone from Spain. Do you really have so little faith in them?
April 3, 2016 at 4:21 PM
life with IC
Just want to jump in and say that it isn’t common in the US to not understand that Spanish is the proper way to describe a person from Spain (at least in my experience of a lifetime in California). People know this, all educated people know it. The excuse that “oh I have to be grammatically incorrect because otherwise Americans won’t understand the difference between the Spanish language and a Spanish person when the context of what I’m writing is naming national origin” is just that- an excuse. Obviously someone was embarrassed to have been called out on making a mistake and couldn’t be mature enough to just admit it and correct. I have never seen a Spaniard described as a “Spaniard-man” or “spaniard male” in this country or anywhere in the English language, only a “Spanish man/male.” It’s lame and embarrassing that the author and others are refusing to acknowledge their error by blaming the perceived stupidity of US citizens. Even if we are pretty stupid, it seems like a reason to use CORRECT terminology to educate, not to persist in confusing and incorrect terms.
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.
October 13, 2013 at 6:05 PM
Peter Jack
They’re all excellent, but the Irish man’s face looks as if it gave you most problems — the composite doesn’t work as well as the others.
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 16, 2014 at 3:18 AM
Gaara
Correction: The UNGLIEST women on Earth except Croatia.
May 23, 2019 at 3:05 PM
Rock Lee
Why so salty, weeb?
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.
August 3, 2012 at 10:32 PM
M. van den Akker
Hello, I am from the Netherlands. Greeks are absolutely not from Ethiopia. They have a light skin. They are European descent. They founded the European civilization and culture and so the Western culture and civilization. The name Europe comes from the Greeks. They influent the Roman culture and founded the Olympic Games before Christ. Further in the Netherlands there are blond-, brown- and redhaired people and also blue-, brown- and greyeyed people. Spaniards are white people.
November 5, 2013 at 10:55 AM
Filip
Only Bulgarian can have that wrong idea about history. I don’t know if you invented this or this is really in some Bulgarian books.
May 5, 2014 at 3:04 PM
thexfiles125
The Macedonian language is more similar to Serbian than Bulgarian, Bulgarian language is some pseudo-Russian piece of shit, and what political reasons you autist? The Macedonian nation was created because there were Macedonians living there.
April 24, 2015 at 2:54 PM
Anastasia
Um Im Greek and im a fair skinned blonde, my great grandmother was a blue eyed blonde, my grandmother is a fair skinned red head and my mother is fairskinned with auburn hair. In fact all my family members are fair. And when I went to visit my motherland everyone had light brown hair or regular brown, with a few blondes in the mix. ABSOLUTELY NO ONE was Dark skinned like a person of ethiopian decent, the majority of the population had sun tanned skin light brown skin or fair skin with a yellow undertone. further more Ive Done 23 and Me genetic testing showed I was deffinatly a Caucasian from the medditerranian.
April 30, 2015 at 5:36 AM
Alistair
This is the most idiotic comment on the net. You win the award! You must be from Republic of “Macedonia.’ This rubbish was circulating a few years ago in that country.
May 30, 2015 at 7:33 PM
ego
lol .. alexander the great , the king of greece was not black , nor bulgarian (bulgarian tribes didnt even exist back then lol) Most of bulgarians are gipsy and have turkish descents ,so its most posible that they are dark skined .
February 14, 2017 at 4:53 PM
Colin
The only Greek I know looks like a central casting Viking, which may account for his ability to go forth in a Scottish winter wearing a T shirt.
January 21, 2015 at 11:31 AM
felguz
Hi! I really hope that you can read this message
A few months ago one of my colleagues run into this amazing website. Since then, we have been doing academic research using some of the facial composites that you created. We also edited (“photoshopped”) many of them to make them look more realistic (and thus make them more suitable to conduct academic research).
We really would like to contact you to share our results with you (and also to show you how the edited versions look like).
You can write me to faguzman {at} iese dot edu
PS: Sorry for double posting… I’m just maximizing the changes of reaching you
May 30, 2015 at 7:22 PM
ego
Greeks have no relation with the svals.Actually Slavs is not even an racial type but lingual
September 3, 2015 at 3:31 PM
morganalexandru
Slavs are not a racial type…lol tell that to Hitler
February 7, 2011 at 7:20 AM
Paco Jones
The english woman average…is it a joke? They are ugly as hell…
February 26, 2013 at 11:10 AM
phil
You’ve newer been to England? Woman here are amazing. BTW I’m polish myself.
February 14, 2017 at 5:00 PM
Colin
No accounting for taste I suppose. I myself have been to Poland and thought the women absolutely stunning.
October 13, 2013 at 6:08 PM
Peter Jack
Have to agree.
But different types of ugly cancel each other out I guess!
October 13, 2013 at 6:11 PM
Peter Jack
Agree with Paco, I meant.
April 17, 2014 at 3:37 PM
Sam
I don’t think so, they’re one of the most beautiful women in the world. You have probably never seen an English woman 😛 And even… if you look up some English actresses, models or singers you see such beautiful girls and women… I don’t understand why the people say English women are ugly!!!?? They’re so much sexyy!
January 3, 2015 at 9:23 PM
Euthenshlagen
I don’t mean to offend anyone but english women may not the best looking but a lot of them are very caring. I’ve been to england many times, even to study there. And of course you are going to find models – its hard to find a country without a single good looking person, also all that photoshop and layers of make-up that models use comes into place pretty much all the time.
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
The Average Irish Face | Broadsheet.ie
[…] average Irish male […]
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).
August 3, 2013 at 5:39 PM
realthug
Hey where is the average composite of Portuguese you forgot about that.
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:
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.
July 7, 2012 at 3:33 PM
Gamilkar
Dragon Horse, I can’t agree with you on thierd item. Coz neither genetic, nor anthropological, nor linguistical data do not demonstrate a FU significant impact on northen Russian population. Perhaps arrived slavic people prevailed over the autochthonous finnis-speaking (and may be smb else) population. Conversely, noticeable slavic (russian) influence on local karelian and relative to them folks.
But yes, there is some differ between northern and southern Russians.
P.S. I think luminiscent is Latvian or Lithuanian and he can’t recognize any relationship of Russian and Baltic people because of political reason.
January 19, 2015 at 11:15 AM
AleD
Every schoolboy knows, that phenotype is determined by 2 factors: genotype and environment. For modern people the influence of environment is unsignificant. So, the phenotype is defined only by genotype. People with similar genotype have similar phenotype.
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.
July 1, 2012 at 8:56 PM
Mike J
wow. your ignorance is astounding. several ethnic groups call Spain home. Why can’t people accept that countries are lines drawn on a map?! Catalans, Galicians, Basques, Castilians, etc. live in Spain. People have migrated and married people from different backgrounds and regions, like in any other countries, but lines of ethnicity are still present. Lighter complexions and hair colors tend to be more common in northern Spain than in Andalusia, where people with darker complexions and hair colors predominate- thanks to Muslim (Berber) and Jewish presence here in medieval times (and many of their descendants converted to Catholicism and became ‘Spanish.’ So, yes, there can’t be a ‘composite’ picture of the ‘average Spaniard’ as an ethnicity, because Spain is a state/country, not an ethnic group. Many Spanish-speaking people, even today, call the Spanish language “Castilian,” or “Castellano” after the region of Castile.
February 27, 2018 at 10:34 AM
Nina
You’re wrong. Spain is 300 years old. The monarquic dinastic union was 500 ago, true, but the Aragon kingdom and the Castilian Kingdom didn’t become one kingdom until the approval of the Nueva Planta decrees, in 1707, with Felipe IV:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueva_Planta_decrees
February 27, 2018 at 10:35 AM
Nina
“People have migrated and married people from different backgrounds and regions, like in any other countries”
That’s essentially wrong too. The genetic studies suggest that people usually dind’t travel or married with people from other regions until XIX, nor in Spain or in other countries. Only the high class did that, but they were 1% of the population.
I will show you an evidence of this: when the electricity came to Ferrol, a a small town in Galicia, people who lived there thought their town was the first in Spain with electricity. If they thought that, you can have a clear idea about how frequently the people travelled or visited a nearby city… Never.
George Borrow, called ‘Jorgito el Inglés’ in Spain, travelled a lot across Spain and said that this country suffered from exacerbated localism, especially in Galicia, because people din’t travelled at all. They didn’t have reasons to do that and travelling was very dangerous and uncomfortable.
The nowadays surnames were created in Spain about XIII and even now you still can clearly see that each municipality has it’s typical surnames. That means that most people with these surnames dind’t leave their land yet. I have investigated my lineage (I reached to 1690) and I found that all my ascestors from 1690 were born in a maximum range of distance of 20 km from were I was born.
I don’t try to mean that there are different races in Spain, of course, but speaking about an average face of Spain is ridiculous in the same way. Are the Spaniards a different race from Portugueses and Frenchs? What the hell!? The Frech one looks like my mother!
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.
July 1, 2012 at 9:01 PM
Mike J
Horsey: these so-called composites are statistically and scientifically worthless. they represent genetic reality in no way whatsoever. taking different appearances and combining them makes something different- a different appearance. you cannot ‘average’ appearance in a meaningful way. this is art, not science.
October 13, 2013 at 6:21 PM
Peter Jack
Of course you can! An average is a scientific measurement– you can measure the average heights of different nations, even IQ!
It’s how you interpret the averages which presents problems.
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.
July 1, 2012 at 9:10 PM
Mike J
again, once again, (even those these posts are months old, but i feel compelled to respond for the sake of knowledge and fact), ethnicities don’t correspond to geographical boundaries. Poland is a country. Not everyone who lives in Poland has some sort of standard look. You can find people in different countries who look similar and you could not identify correctly what country they hail from. That is one small reason these composites make no sense. You can find the same supposed traits of appearance in Poland, Ukraine, Russia, England, Germany, Turkey, etc. The boundaries of Poland, for example, do not correspond to the historic boundaries of the Kingdom of Poland, nor to the interwar Polish Republic. Millions of people were relocated, and millions were killed. That applies to other European countries. Another example, in Ottoman Turkish Empire, religion meant ethnicity. To leave Christianity and adopt Islam meant to become a Turk. So many “Turkish” viziers and bureaucrats and military officers were from Serbian, Greek, Georgian, and Armenian families. Everyone thought of them as Turks, because Muslims were Turks. To be Greek was to be an Orthodox Christian, nothing else. To take photo samples of people who live within poltical boundaries and ‘average’ them says nothign meaningful about history, genetics, or self-identification. There are mosques in Poland today, for Tatar communities. Others Tatar descendants accepted Catholicism and became “Poles.” So many Slovaks look like Poles and many Poles look like Lithuanians, and many Italians look like Bavarians, etc etc etc. Country/citizenship says very little about ancestry, genetics, self-identification. That’s the truth.
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 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:
If you look at Europeans on a map with other NonEuropean populations you will see just how closely EUropeans are related to each other:
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…
March 20, 2012 at 7:08 PM
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April 24, 2013 at 4:06 PM
Little Cat
I totally agree with it, sometimes German poeple look like polish, or English like french poeple. Northen france people are really mixed so that they can look like polish or german, english and spanish or italian… aha (for my part : I have polish “roots” and many people can’t see it, they tell me I’m from England. But anyway, this average an the site are very interesting…
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.
October 3, 2013 at 7:33 PM
edu
no portuguese?
how can this possible? a country that ruled half a world..
that navigated and ruled from brasil to asia,
that had comercial routes all around the world?
the first country to end slavery…a mix from asia, africa, brasil, arabs
The country that give to the world the 7º most spoken language (portuguese)
And its very very diferent from spanish people
its a big fail to forget a country with so much genetic history.
October 3, 2013 at 9:33 PM
realthug
I am currently working on the Middle Eastern averages I’m gonna do one for Portuguese pretty soon
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!
March 1, 2014 at 1:16 AM
елена
Вы правы! я с Дальнего востока.Здесь много разных монголоидных -это чукчи, коряки,якуты, эвенки, нанайцы, ульчи, удыгейцы, нивхи, оморочи, и много других. Но мы-славяне, с ними не смешиваемся! хотя их женщинам больше нравятся русские мужчины. А русским мужчинам их женщины -не comilfo…
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.
April 24, 2013 at 12:54 PM
Olivia Cristiana
+1
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…
January 20, 2022 at 7:27 PM
WorldQuestioner
I wondered that too. I notice that the Latvian/Lithuanian has oblong face with square jaw. I’m going to guess that Estonian has less elongated face with less square jaws, being somewhat more similar to Finnish.
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.
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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!
February 26, 2012 at 1:14 AM
Dee
I looked at the woman of Spain and the woman of Mexico and they do not look alike at all. I do not mean to be rude but you must need glasses.
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.
June 12, 2012 at 9:49 AM
ivandrago
You’re right (especially eyes – way too dark)! You wrote about archetype russian type, IMO actors Boris Korchevnikov and Ivan Zhidkov are ideal example of this, – the traditional “russian Ivan”. For a female IMO it would be miss world Ksenia sukhinova and actress Elvira Bolgova. BUT! you forget about southern russia. IMO for this region the archetype will go to these personalities: males – singer Roman Pashkov (Gradusy) and actor Vladimir Mashkov, females – actress Anastasia Zavorotnyuk and miss universe Oxana Fedorova. Now try composite both archetypes into one picture and you’ll get some kind what DragonHorse did. Two of my british friends don’t look like english composite here too (they’re more lighter), but england in general IMO looks similar.
January 11, 2016 at 6:23 AM
Eugene
I am half russian, half jewish. My family moved to USA from Moscow when i was 6. Hope i’ll see Russia one day again. I’d say most of Russian Americans don’t look like personalities you provided. Margarita Levieva and Sergey Brin would fit it better. At least it is fair to Brighton Beach and West Hollywood areas.
August 17, 2011 at 1:49 PM
Linda Johnsen
Awesoem! But where are the norwegians?? 😦
January 20, 2022 at 7:33 PM
WorldQuestioner
I was wondering that too. There’s some picture of average Norwegian woman’s face on Pinterest. If I remember correctly, the average face for “Norwegian” that’s on Pinterest, doesn’t have as square jaws or fine facial features as the Swedish here.
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
April 24, 2013 at 2:40 PM
palot
agree
May 3, 2013 at 6:11 AM
AN
Indeed 😉
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!
June 9, 2013 at 12:42 PM
Lukes
we all look like serbian, man
September 21, 2014 at 8:42 PM
Djansla
You have no idea how right you are…
May 30, 2015 at 7:36 PM
ego
lol you wish ..
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.
March 31, 2012 at 7:31 AM
Mark bos
Shut up dude, you are an immigrant in your own country wich is America. I find the pictures really accurate, i am from holland and travelled quite a bit around the world. Must say some of the pictures are amazingly recognisable.
February 26, 2012 at 12:49 PM
Anny moose
I am amazed at the similarities between English, French and Italian men and women. I would have thought that Irish and Germans would bear a greater resemblance to English, but they don’t at all!
April 17, 2012 at 9:28 PM
Tricia
Would have been nice to see a Scottish average.
May 14, 2012 at 3:01 PM
Olwynn
Would it be possible to make a welsh male average? i’d be grateful 🙂
June 19, 2012 at 5:26 PM
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July 1, 2012 at 8:48 PM
Mike J
they all look the same. and this ‘composite’ is not how averages work. this is a joke. do you know anything about statistics and scientific method at all? just another stereotypical attempt to use alleged science to prove that races and ethnicities can be found in someone’s looks. a complete example of ignorance of genetics. nationalities are people who live in a country- lines drawn on a map. communities that intermarry, to a degree, do not correspond to artifical political or cultural boundaries.
July 9, 2012 at 8:35 PM
Those Italians… | JayMan's Blog
[…] Interestingly, as an aside, Schettino’s appearance is also quintessential Italian. Even if you didn’t know who this guy was or ever heard his name, you could look at him and know instantly that he is Italian, thanks to these facial averages from The Postnational Monitor : […]
August 3, 2012 at 10:49 PM
M. van den Akker
There is also a theory that Britian has with Spain. Well, perhabs that came with conquire by the Romans But the English come from German tribes of Angelsaxons and Jutes. and also the Vikings and Normans who also descended from Vikings (who are descended from Northern Germans.Furthermore the Scots are descending from Picts and more from Celtic tribe who orginated from Swiss and Autria. and mixed also with the Vikings Also the Welsh an Irish people are descended from the Celts and perhabs Celtic descendents mixed with Angelsaxons.
August 11, 2012 at 6:10 AM
halan
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August 12, 2012 at 6:38 PM
Eye2Eye
I’ve heard that as well about Spain>Viking connection. Kind of bizarre, but of course it isn’t since European civilization would be very migratory–for so many reasons. And vikings would be out there, conquering (or attempting to) various countries. And raping of local women from foreign men (Vikings>Spainish) would begin to create a human with fairer skin, blonder. Or is that wrong? Wars, famines, disease and et al make any human being very nomadic. Of course this’ll always be the way; as long as humans exist. Blah Blah blah blah, et al………..
August 12, 2012 at 6:42 PM
Eye2Eye
P.S.- I think the end results of these composites are almost beautiful people. The hazy auras around their faces look like something off the cover of a romance novel.
September 8, 2012 at 4:05 PM
drybone
This page is very nice, beutyful pictures. And how accurate! I was scrolling down, didnt read, and stopped at the Hungarian woman picture, she looks exactly like my daughter, and we are Hungarians…
October 14, 2012 at 6:09 PM
fghjjjjjasj
italian serbian and greek are so dark
October 25, 2012 at 8:52 AM
alon
interesting thing – deifferent people have different beautiful sexs. for exampe swedish guys and italian look good copmared to the women. on the other hand, ukranina and dutch women look good comapred to thier male counterparts. so its not uniform acorss race. thats a very intersting notion, may have somethig to do with natuarl selection in deifferent societies
November 6, 2012 at 5:43 AM
Eye2Eye
Are Italians (spec. Sicilians) descendents of Lebanon? Over the millennium(s) Italy has captured and adopted MANY peoples thru out Europe, Africa & Middle East. And of course, the natural flow of human beings thru Italy make it a true melting pot, whether people like it or admit it. But just wondering about the strong genetic link between the Lebanese & Italians/Sicilians.
November 12, 2012 at 1:24 PM
Bronan The Barbarian!
Awesome concept! I’m kind of surprised that nobody appears to average out as blonde haired.
November 14, 2012 at 6:10 AM
Eye2Eye
How about the Belgians, Dutch & Scandinavians – (or at least blondish-Finns & Swedes). How about the Norwegian average? Probably Swede average is about Norse average. Asking more than this feels neurotic and self-centered, soooooooo OK, whatever, it’s all good.
December 12, 2012 at 12:16 PM
ivandrago
No blondes here. But two are light brown/dark blond – swedish female and russian male. All other – brown and darker. Always knew that russians IN AVERAGE the world’s blondest.
December 21, 2012 at 6:10 AM
Eye2Eye
Wow, to stare past the forest trying to see the trees.! Unbelievable comments here. Frickin’ weird.
December 25, 2012 at 11:28 AM
ivandrago
to Eye2Eye
yes dude my thoughts was the same when i’ve read you comment. Bronan the barbarian and me from countries where no one of them classified as even light haired (its strong brown type), use word blonde for them is just make everyone laughing. You are probably from mythical valhalla where you are vikings sitting in circle and talk about how are you are fricking cool :D, sorry to burst your bubble 🙂 if swedes not bleached they look dark, accept it 🙂
November 14, 2012 at 7:24 AM
3rd Millenium Men
Ukranian woman is the best looking!!
November 21, 2012 at 9:17 PM
Tina
I am an artist and have been desiring some references for different ethnics. Thank you Thank you Thank you!!
November 22, 2012 at 1:40 AM
Eye2Eye
Wish the Irish Male & Female averages was redone. What is the average ages of the peolpes’ faces collected for this website? I admire your effort at attempting these composites; the world is so mobile now, wonder if the faces used to create a country’s average is a native or visitor from another country or whatever. Thank you for your time & trouble (and from the neurotic, angry comments people post here it’s been challenging). If you can redo the Irish averages that’d be awesome, if not, whatever–this is very timeconsuming work. Thanks.
December 16, 2012 at 6:03 AM
axr
we are the world and we are beautiful!
December 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Viļums
Funny and useless project, IMHO 🙂 You could make average European or average world faces with the same success. It makes no sense at all. Read these discussions about average english, average russians (and about mixed latvian-lithuanian, which is strange for me as latvian), and you find, people are not averages at all. Good luck!
December 18, 2012 at 2:29 PM
somebody
the images are so obviously fake. it’s laughable. I’ve studied fine art in childhood, and quite aware of huge variations in major face features, even within a family, which are not present here at all. also, look at the blind image decomposition examples elsewhere (where multiple image overlapped in a quite similar fashion) and you’ll see. and, obviously, an average polish guy shall not be any more bald than any other – but look at the picture above. and so on, and on, and on…
December 21, 2012 at 5:31 PM
niki
The austrian female looks very austrian to me. Howerver both austrians resemble more people from the eastern part of austria (Vienna) not western austria (Tyrol).
April 22, 2013 at 6:00 PM
floyd
are you going to do a Croatian average?
April 23, 2013 at 10:15 AM
Chud
This is only fool! And an old greek test for beauty (you put beautiful people together, but after that the average isn’t beautiful anymore). Are you not wondering why they all look so similar? And why the averages don’t look like women and men really look like in some particular country? I’m living in two country (Finland and Italy), and you can’t find their averages there. Finnish are darker uralic or blond chuds (not blond in the same way as scandinavians) or blond scandinavians. Not the average of them. That’s why they don’t look like Finnish. Naturally always some one can look like these, but most of look more like uralic, chud or scandinavian – not all of them.
November 7, 2014 at 6:47 PM
Vits?
Haha, is this a joke. I´ve lived in Finland all my life and these averages are very much like Finns in common. Finns don´t often dye their natural blond hair lighter blond as swedes do with their hair. If Finns dye their hair, very often it is to black 😀 Maybe you just haven´t noticed that? Hilarious.
April 23, 2013 at 10:53 AM
Anne-Claire
Hi ! I’m a French journalist interested by your work. How is it possible to contact you to know more about it ? Thanks !!
April 24, 2013 at 2:30 PM
Alex
The average French man is sort of cute, which is weird because that’s where I live and I seldom come across cute guys.
October 13, 2013 at 6:34 PM
Peter Jack
The reason average or composite faces are always cute is that ‘ugly cancels out ugly’. For example people with flat noses cancel out people with long noses, people with receding chins cancel out people with jutting chins, sunken cheeks cancel out flabby fat cheeks, etc.
April 24, 2013 at 2:32 PM
arcoirisixtapa
Where’s Portugal ?
April 24, 2013 at 8:05 PM
camilero
in antarctica !
April 26, 2013 at 10:41 PM
xBlazingFlame
out
October 13, 2013 at 6:36 PM
Peter Jack
Wherever the Spanish want it to be.
January 19, 2014 at 4:14 PM
Peter Jackass
you probably never had an atlas or a globe in front of you – or do you still feel that bone stuck in your rear?
April 26, 2013 at 10:42 PM
xBlazingFlame
Can you please do a Portuguese one? Because many people seem to get that confused with Spanish
May 3, 2013 at 5:57 AM
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May 15, 2013 at 6:30 PM
CAROLINE
Italian, Greek and French women are definitely the best…
May 15, 2013 at 6:34 PM
jeff
I agree
May 15, 2013 at 6:33 PM
LP
Italian and french women and men are great
May 15, 2013 at 6:37 PM
james
I Want to go to Italy or Greece now
May 18, 2013 at 4:25 PM
Test Anchor
May I simply just say what a comfort to find somebody who truly understands what they are discussing over the internet. You certainly understand how to bring a problem to light and make it important. A lot more people have to check this out and understand this side of the story. I can’t believe you aren’t more popular since you definitely possess the gift.
May 19, 2013 at 9:35 PM
frederick
And now with black/ brown pple the white pple dispear !
that nice save this pics for your remember .
And don’t forget to mix with africa 🙂
May 22, 2013 at 2:15 AM
R
I don’t find the Belgian ones good at all. But it already says “approximation”. So you just assumed that Belgians look close to Dutch because the countries are close. But as a Belgian, I think the faces of Dutch and Belgian look too close in your pictures. I assume you just toned down the dutch faces…
May 23, 2013 at 3:08 PM
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May 26, 2013 at 4:46 AM
bob cotton
Rasfarengi – would you be interested in exhibiting your work in the UK – at the museum devoted to Julia Margaret Cameron and photographic portraiture (see http://www.dimbola.co.uk) mail me at bobcotton@mac.com if you
are – fabulous work!
May 27, 2013 at 9:52 AM
Τάσος Α.
Hi im greek and we are not ethiopians our history, many dna tests and all the ancient greek philosophers say that the first greek tribes (Ίωνες, Αχαιοί, Δωριείς, Αιολείς) came from the north 3.000 years b.c.Also the ancient egyptian history say something about the ”people of the see” who attack them from the north at the begining of the 12 century b.c.Our skin colour is not black but it is not white neither.I guess that after staying at the mediterranean sea for 5000 years greeks,italians and spanish have develop a skin that can adapt at many deferent weather conditions.For example if you come to Greece in winter you will see people look like north europeans but if you come in summer you will see people look like indians.THE LIES THAT WE CAME FROM ETHIOPIA AND WE ARE BLACK BEGAN WHEN THE SKOPJANS STARTED CLAIMING THAT THEY ARE MACEDONIANS AND ALEKSANDER THE GREATE IS NOT GREEK (L.O.L.).Its a part of theyr propaganda, they try to prove that they are not bulgarians….
March 1, 2014 at 12:38 AM
елена
Вы правы-греция очень давно была единна с Россией.Македонский-это славянскаяфамилия (“дон”-это”река” по-славянски)
June 19, 2013 at 6:04 AM
What will our stupid faces look like? | The Kingdoms of Evil
[…] 1) Establish a baseline. Chose an age (say 30). Make composite faces based on every male and every female human being aged thirty. If you don’t have the resources […]
June 26, 2013 at 3:05 PM
michael cassidy
Thanks for allowing a look at your excellent work
I note the beauty of the female faces on averaging
my experience is that beauty is not always matched in profile compared to face on (and particularily with symetry created )
this site (and others) have analysed facial beauty in the context of the golden section
http://www.goldennumber.net/beauty/
have you a european and other continents averaged faces ,
June 28, 2013 at 9:20 PM
DJ
the Deeds of God website has a 6th Day Series that has some really odd things about human anatomy. Really odd.
July 1, 2013 at 10:56 AM
Bok
I know the method that was used but c’mon “Average English People” – their freakin’ models, as a Leeds nativeI know that in general we are ugly as hell.
July 10, 2013 at 7:55 PM
Michael
I have to say that the average italian and spanish man and woman doesnt look like persons in these pictures. That “average” Italian man look more like an North African or an Middle East man. The “average” Spanish man and woman look more like latinos too me. There is a big difference between North Italians/Spanish people, they look more Alpine like the Swiss, Austrian and the South Austrian people. Italians/Spanish people from the central part of the country (Rome and Madrid) looks according to me like Mediterranean. South Italians/Spanish people look like an mix of Mediterranean with South Slave people (Albania, Bulgaria, Serbia ect).
July 10, 2013 at 8:07 PM
Michael
I mean that there are big difference beteween North Italians, Spanish i you compare them with South Italians and Spanish people. North Italians and Spanish people look very Alpine, they look very similar to the Swiss, Austrian and the South German people.
July 11, 2013 at 12:47 AM
Em
Holy crap average Dutch man is beautiful
July 14, 2013 at 4:04 AM
Lucia
totally agree. I stopped and stared for a sec.
July 28, 2013 at 4:45 AM
Eye2Eye
Dutch male face looks inclined to be attached to obese human. Lifetime of eating cheese and dead cattle.
July 16, 2013 at 6:32 AM
makedonskodevojche
What about Macedonia?? Please do a Macedonia composite 😀 !!! 😀
August 17, 2013 at 6:14 PM
Liz
Amazing. My husband found this site while doing genealogy research and immediately pulled me over. I look exactly like the French female pictured! Our family didn’t keep great records, but I always just assumed we were of Scotch-Irish decent since the majority of Appalacian Virginians are. Once I saw this, I joined ancestory.com and sure enough, my mother’s paternal side is from France! Thanks for leading me to this discovery!
August 17, 2013 at 8:23 PM
Michael
How does it come that you havent posted Denmark and Norway? Please do Denmark and Norway!
Thanks!
September 1, 2013 at 2:03 PM
Shannon
Add Scottish please!
September 2, 2013 at 12:26 AM
inthename
It is not so dramatic, as may be seen here. First of all, when you see often other nations on the streets, they are mixing in one face after a while. But when picked up and separeted, the picture will be still the same. Nations look different and it will be always that way until the marrigies between them will be more often thing, than right now (rare). And what is called genetic. Other ways to mix the races and nations are impossible.
Some may say, these kind of marrigies are nowadays often. Well, not that way to say that they dominate.
What to do? That is really not pleasant to see other nations not as guests, but as citizens. Help other countries, so people will prefer to stay where they have been born. The only reason to be be in, for instance, London, is that London policy is much more pleasant then, for instance, in poor province of India.
Sorry for mistakes.
September 4, 2013 at 5:15 PM
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September 22, 2013 at 8:07 AM
AvarageFaces
Funny how the male dutch faces do not even spark a spark of recognition in my eyes. I do not know a single person aside from a few dutch celebs who might look a little bit like that…
Also why are the shirts of the belgian and dutch avarage nearly the same color?
How many pictures did you use for an avarage ?
September 22, 2013 at 1:29 PM
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September 24, 2013 at 12:43 AM
Rasan Samarasinghe
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October 7, 2013 at 5:46 PM
Ronin
I can haz Denmark?
October 13, 2013 at 5:25 PM
Peter Jack
Fascinating tour de force. I’m surprised that the average English woman looks the prettiest! The average Spanish man looks much as I would expect, but the other nations don’t look like the stereotypes we tend to think of.
It would be interesting to measure the slight differences between the faces of each nation.
PS The men have all got my hairstyle — ‘Mr Average’ — that’s me!
October 14, 2013 at 8:26 AM
Jack S.
I am dutch and dont recognize anything in this version of the dutch as well! Also indeed the Belgium and Dutch are (almost) the same. It also seems strange to me that the whole world is pretty…
October 19, 2013 at 9:12 AM
Leanne
In the majority of the cases the females’ eye colour is slightly lighter than the males’. I wonder if this hints at sex chromosome-linked eye colour determination.
October 29, 2013 at 11:59 PM
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November 2, 2013 at 10:40 AM
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November 10, 2013 at 11:43 PM
Niina
This was great. The finnish female was surprisingly accurate. Especially the eyes and high cheekbones. I did´n know I was that average, also the colours matched.
November 16, 2013 at 12:40 PM
nathcelt87
Excellent work here! Will you be making a Welsh man composite?
Diolch o Cymru!
Merci de pays de Galles!
November 22, 2013 at 1:39 PM
Max Krakah
The Belgian and Dutch are the same average. The Serbian and the Hungarian look very much alike as well.
November 22, 2013 at 7:18 PM
Turnip
Great job! This is fascinating. Swedish and Finnish portraits looks quite average (been in both countries a lot lately!)
November 30, 2013 at 7:05 PM
European999
interesting…i visited the most of the countries above, currently am living in Germany and the average faces of Germans-both of woman and man fit perfectly. As many others too. But definitely not all of them, I wish Englishmen were so handsome (1 example where it doesn´t fit)-but that is far away from the truth. Or i wish Italian men were that good looking as portrayed here but they just aren´t. Actually, my native (i am European) is not listed here.
December 7, 2013 at 5:13 PM
Taja
This is super interesting! Do you think you will do the Slovenian nation? 🙂
December 17, 2013 at 12:07 AM
Anna
Serbian average men is best 🙂
December 17, 2013 at 1:04 AM
Harry
Spainard can be a proper noun AND a proper adjective, exactly the same as Russian: The Russians arrived today (proper noun). Russian winters are very cold (proper adjective).
December 25, 2013 at 8:25 AM
Semetic Hebrew God of Heretic Jews = Christians
PLEASE – WE MUST CLONE THE DNA OF kiira Korpi
KIIRA IS A GODDESS!!!!
there are methods to create the SAME phenotype
from different DNA molecules,
but you need programming for that
Also if you clone someone, you owe to remove
all the mistake of his/her DNA
so then you have not a perfect clone, but an enhanced one!
=]
Jesus said WE MUST NOT CLONE PEOPLE
Buddah said WE CANNOT CLONE A SOUL
so we can clone people as long as we fix them
Jesus original name was Yeshua in Haramaic,
and as we all know these Hebrew tribe no longer exists,
only Israelities.
Many Europeans serve the Hebrew god in their heresis
called Christianity, the Bible speaks about Hebrew names,
Hebrew stories, Hebrew customs, Hebrew beliefs,
Hebrew lands.
So we must add some facial data of average Israelites.
Most of them have European DNA, because they
were Greeks, Russian, Hispanos, etc,
many of them do not have the original Semitic face,
but the “dark” genes do win, so the average is still Semetic,
but softer
December 30, 2013 at 3:20 AM
nikki
please do averages in all spanish countries as a latina im very interested in seeing that
January 12, 2014 at 7:36 AM
onelung
The problem with with Latvian/Lithuanian face is this:
Ethnic groups in Lithuania:
84.1% Lithuanians
6.6% Poles
5.8% Russians
1.2% Belarusians
0.5% Ukrainians
0.1% Jews
0.1% Tatars
0.1% Germans
0.1% Romani
0.1% Latvians
Ethnic groups in Latvia:
62.1% Latvians
26.9% Russians
3.3% Belarusians
2.2% Ukrainians
2.2% Poles
1.2% Lithuanians
0.4% Jews
0.3% Roma
Not to mention Historical moments like Terra Mariana..
April 7, 2023 at 5:15 PM
Sharon
And yet my own mother as a young woman looked very much like the Lithuanian/Latvian face pictured on this site. She was very beautiful!
April 7, 2023 at 5:24 PM
GrassMudHorse
I only used people with Naltic surnames, not foolproof for women but better than not.
January 12, 2014 at 6:48 PM
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January 15, 2014 at 10:58 PM
etharkier
My father was adopted and this site makes it easier to compare his face to them and maybe get even the slightest clue to his heritage. Awesome!
January 18, 2014 at 9:49 PM
schmucker1989 .
I went through all these comments, and I feel like an Olympics winner! Huh! O.o
I know I’m a bit late (couple of years), but I wanted to say that you did a great job by doing this!
I also want to thank you for putting the image of the average looks of my fellow countrymen in Serbia. My first impression when I saw the pictures was that we might have a bit lighter skin and hair color, but in the end I think that they fit us well, even though I don’t represent my countries “average” looks at all. x)
I’ve always questioned that we Serbs are directly genetically connected with the Russians, or the stereotypical ancient image of Slavs, that they had blond hair and blue eyes, because generally we have a light brown or dark brown hair at maybe 80%, while the blond ones with blue eyes make only a minority in our society.
Then I saw the comment of ivandrago, who divided the Russians into two groups “southern” and “northern” Russians, and I must say, by the looks of the people that he provided, we Serbs definitely look like the southern Russians, so we must be closely related to them. The northern Russians have to be a mix between the Nordic (Scandinavian), Viking and the Finnic peoples. That may be the reason for their lighter hair and eye color.
It’s quite interesting to dig deep into our past, and to seek for our ethnic ancestral roots, but not in an racist manner. We’re all the same and different at the same time. And not to forget… people are generally very beautiful, and you shouldn’t be surprised that an average person looks beautiful like that. Cheers!
January 25, 2014 at 11:08 AM
Thoughts on the Side of History
[…] Another study suggests that since global expansion we are starting to carve out any mutations that would start to truly divide into more looks. Before mass migration, our ancestors stayed in a group in Africa until Homo erectus, heidelbergensis, neanderthals, and sapiens moved out for ‘adventure’. They group shared the same “look” until environmental separation (the leading cause of evolution, theory) created new traits for the new climates, such as boarder noses and different eye shapes. In theory this would have led to new species if there was no more interbreeding, but alas with the expanding trade and desire for land humans became one again. During that time there were new mutations that were upheld and became staples of those climate regions. Today, humans are not letting this recessive mutation become dominant, or ones that seemed to be dominant in cultures are being taken over by different dominants. We can see these in the population of natural red haired children in each generation as it steadily declines. Some genetic scientists have even speculated that in the next hundred years or so, this trait will no longer exist. (A strong reason there are groups out there to preserve this by trying to match red heads to each other as one of my colleagues has looking into.) {On the other hand, it is argued that in that time we will be able to genetically alter our children at conception so this is no issue.} To prove this theory, a group took a sample of images from certain European countries (they expanded afterwards) and overlaid the pictures. The result was an average appearance of the regions traits. Because certain features are more common they overlap clearer and become more dominant in the image. Here is a link to a blog that has the images: https://pmsol3.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/world-of-averages-europeave/. […]
January 28, 2014 at 5:59 AM
flawless
Italian male makes no sense. Is it a composite of extreme south individuals? He looks far more greek/balkanite than average italian…
February 2, 2014 at 11:52 PM
Jb
V good work but you miss Malta and I m v Rey curious how the average Maltese looks like
February 20, 2014 at 2:57 PM
honza
Im czech but look dutch what the hell, how is this possible
February 23, 2014 at 12:11 AM
john
oh god… czech girls are very cute same as polish…
March 1, 2014 at 6:25 AM
elena
we in the city can be found in almost every type presented here photo 🙂
March 16, 2014 at 11:07 PM
April First
WOW Guess what. Amazing. I used the composite program and entered my background in percents 40% German, 20% Irish, 10% English, 10% Spanish Mexican, 10% Native American Sioux & 10% Native American Navajo. When I pressed the composite button on the bottom right … the photo that came up …. was ME! …..Boy that was scary! …. or it would have been if it were true.
March 29, 2014 at 4:02 AM
Radost
where is Bulgaria…………….
April 17, 2014 at 2:00 PM
Sam
Judging by the photos I find the most atypical women and so interesting Serbian and Irish women. The sexiest women (I said “WOOW” while staring at their photos) are definitely Greek and Ukrainian women!!! Another women sooo much beautiful are, in my view, Spanish, Polish, Italian, Latvian/Lithuanian, Welsh, Austrian, English, Rushian and French women. The others are (still only judging by THESE photos)… nothing special.
April 23, 2014 at 12:20 PM
Personen
czech girls are the most beautiful … greets from sweden
May 20, 2014 at 3:44 PM
Mitchell
I’d say English is most similar to Swiss.. Or Dutch, but not French.
June 14, 2014 at 5:47 AM
dfjal kjkl
I’m a mixture between Portuguese, German, polish and Italian…that’s why I don’t look like no one else…very unic face
July 1, 2014 at 11:29 AM
Fred-Rick
Good job. Growing up in Holland, I was able to recognize types of faces in different cities. It makes sense to ‘average’ faces by overlapping a good number of them, but the geographical information has to come from smaller geographical settings. The Netherlands, for instance, is too diverse geographically to come up with an average Dutch face: the characteristics of faces in certain areas all end up being averaged out. Still, very nice exercise, I like the results already a lot.
July 15, 2014 at 3:17 AM
Katherine Lee
If they’re averaged faces, then countries in which more distinctive features are common–large noses; square jaws, etc.–would be softened when merged with those that are less so (like a regression towards the mean).
So amalgamated they would look subjectively more striking, but they would lose the harshness that may exist in the reality of each separate face. Plus, any common asymmetries would cancel each other out if they deviate both ways (e.g., one woman with an aquiline nose that leans to the left and another whose nose leans to the right; concave and convex averaged, for instance)
Averaged sum faces are not the reality of what people on ‘average’ look like in that country; everyone should remember that 🙂 We’re not averages – we’re WHOLE 🙂
August 12, 2014 at 4:13 PM
Glenn (freedom of movement) Robinson @getgln
Reblogged this on Mixed American Life and commented:
The average way people look in different European countries.
September 28, 2014 at 10:19 AM
Wren Bauer
Why only Welsh female and not Welsh male? There were a few others like that. Is it harder to get the pictures?
October 7, 2014 at 4:44 PM
Juaillo
I like all these European women. They are really beautiful .
October 20, 2014 at 1:11 PM
Tom
The average russian male has a strking resemblance to Medvedev.
December 10, 2014 at 3:01 AM
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BELGIAN AND DUTCH PEOPLE ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL
January 12, 2015 at 12:06 PM
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Dutches look like sexy supermodels…and them and belgians are so alike….
January 16, 2015 at 3:31 AM
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January 18, 2015 at 1:29 AM
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Why isn’t there an average native american face?
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Laura
Perhaps because the title says: Average EUROPEAN…
February 5, 2015 at 7:13 AM
Carla
please add Danish~
February 9, 2015 at 10:14 AM
Clara
Romanian women are portrayed being the ugliest :(, wich is not the truth. I mean they’re not the best but not the worst either.
Swedish man is the hottest btw, and the secound is the dutchman.
March 11, 2015 at 11:35 AM
nieke
I love austrian’s manly feature and gentle smile.
April 1, 2015 at 5:52 PM
Eli
I think this problem with the regions of a country is everywhere and it’s a geographical and history problem I think.In Romania for example in the east, north and west are a lot of people with blonde hair and blue/green eyes but if you re going to the south, most of the people have brown hair.Now I am living in Poland and I saw also that in Warsaw people look more like russians and there are a lot of blondes.In Krakow, people look more like in “central Europe”.Maybe the more you get closed to the east & north, the people are more “caucasian”.
April 2, 2015 at 2:36 PM
Clara
you are perfectly right.
April 5, 2015 at 7:18 AM
stace
Can you do Australia?
June 15, 2015 at 8:00 PM
Jahwe
It’s really looking, like an all girls have a one face. I’m from Poland
June 21, 2015 at 8:55 AM
Ryan
Be interesting to see Saudi Arabian, Pakistani, Yemeni, etc. Wondering if this amalgamation without hijab would offend Sharia?
July 18, 2015 at 3:12 AM
Lana
Ummmm…. Me and my mom were looking through these photos and some of them look bizarrely like me. Like the Greek,Italian, urkrainian, and Serbian. Can anyone explain this if I’m half white half Mexican? Do some Mexican origins come from any of these countries?
October 1, 2015 at 4:40 PM
marinatchech
Would like to see a Bulgarian average.
October 23, 2015 at 5:44 PM
Elfohobbit
I’m from Ukraine and let me tell you – the average male’s face definitely looks like that, and is SO common here. Like, I can see those types of guys around my block!
Female face is pretty accurate to. And it’s very true that our females looks much better than our males. Males looks are nothing special
October 30, 2015 at 10:05 AM
Meep
It be interesting to see an average Maltese female and male.
February 6, 2016 at 8:26 AM
Mila
Heyy, could you please add some countries from the Balkans too? Like Bulgaria, Macedonia, Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo ?
April 8, 2016 at 10:28 AM
linettebarton42994
I hadn’t noticed that The First Time Ever I Saw Her Face wasn’t performed on the tour either. The Guardian review was certainly mixed! LOL! A little b Click https://twitter.com/moooker1
April 9, 2016 at 1:26 PM
Michael
I noticed there’s a big difference between the German man and the Austrian man.
July 16, 2016 at 1:45 AM
Bruno
Michael: There’s quite a surprising difference between the Russian man and the Ukrainian man too. However, the Dutchman and the Belgian man are virtually identical.
April 21, 2016 at 9:17 AM
Carolina
What about Portugal?
July 16, 2016 at 1:52 AM
Bruno
Carolina: That would be interesting to include the Portuguese, because I understand that there is a genetic variation from the Spaniards.
August 1, 2016 at 9:28 PM
Joe
Some countries are more beautiful than depicted here, maybe because their ethnics don’t mix well.
In these pictures Ukranian, Dutch and Polish women are very beautiful, and from other countries brazilian and venezuelan ones.
August 30, 2016 at 2:44 AM
Extreme
I just wanted to say thanks for spending the time on this. It’s very informative.
September 6, 2016 at 4:33 PM
Raymond S
Where is the author?
I have a few questions about where he got these faces from that he used in the averaging process. I’m a college student doing research on beauty.
If you’re the author, please reply, thank you.
September 7, 2016 at 10:03 AM
GrassMudHorse
I am the author..leave an email, and I can try to answer your questions.
October 14, 2016 at 8:50 PM
christineckeating
This is an insult to all Irish women!!
January 16, 2017 at 10:28 PM
Joe Blake
You spelled “average” wrong on the Dutch male.
January 23, 2017 at 11:28 PM
Lisa
I’m surprised. No Welsh Man?
April 18, 2017 at 5:25 AM
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Tristan
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July 10, 2018 at 9:22 AM
Lucija
No croats tho?
October 26, 2018 at 4:06 PM
Rik
Portuguese Please !!
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November 29, 2020 at 9:45 PM
Laura
Amazing! How did you do it?
March 26, 2021 at 10:15 AM
Mantas
Lithuanians look more nordic. Your photo is wrong. Where did you get it ? LOL
January 20, 2022 at 7:31 PM
WorldQuestioner
Swedish has more square jaws and finer facial features e.g. thinner lips than the other European ones, even German and Dutch and Finnish. Swedish also has lighter hair than the others. The Swedish man also has broader forehead relative to lower face.
It seems that Nordic people have more square jaws than Mediterraneans.
March 6, 2022 at 7:51 PM
WorldQuestioner
Another thing, German man appears to have downturned eyes and descending eyebrows.
July 6, 2023 at 7:49 AM
ED
Dear Rasfarengi, I have been admiring these facial composites (and the other images in this series) for some while and would like to compliment you on having taken the time & trouble to piece these composites together.
I also wanted to let you know that – quite by accident – I stumbled onto a way of making these images less blurry and more naturalistic: while toying with a device on AILab.wondershare.com called the ‘Gender Swap Filter’ I discovered that if you input one of these composites and leave the machine set to the same (instead of the opposite) gender, you can get a much clearer picture of the composite as an individual.
I’m not if this will interest you, but hope that it shall.
Have a very lovely day!