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Post by Polako on Dec 4, 2005 3:05:36 GMT -5
Plenty of verbiage, but does it really prove anything? Perhaps there might be some minor environmental influences, but in general this trait is genetic. I seriously doubt that two people, both with a flat back of the head, can somehow produce a child with a very protruding head back. It just won't happen. Yeah right, those reports just basically shot your theory to pieces. You'd see that if you could actually read. There's a report online, in Polish, about children in southern Poland becoming long headed. I'll post a link to it later. Gotta find it again. It seems that during favorable enviornmental conditions Europeans become taller and longer-headed. East Asians become taller and rounder-headed.
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Post by $$$ FD $$$ on Dec 4, 2005 3:10:57 GMT -5
check, check.
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Post by OdinofOssetia on Dec 4, 2005 17:04:15 GMT -5
Perhaps slightly longer headed over a period of at least two or three generations - perhaps, but you will never shoot this to pieces:
I seriously doubt that two people, both with a flat back of the head, can somehow produce a child with a very protruding head back.
It just won't happen.
Do you get it?
And what is this "check, check" thing about?
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Post by Polako on Dec 5, 2005 22:44:05 GMT -5
Perhaps slightly longer headed over a period of at least two or three generations - perhaps, but you will never shoot this to pieces: I seriously doubt that two people, both with a flat back of the head, can somehow produce a child with a very protruding head back.
It just won't happen.
Do you get it? And what is this "check, check" thing about? I've seen it happen about 6 times in my family. My grandfather was the only one with a long head. My parents, uncles and aunties were all round headed. Now, me and most of my cousins are long headed and have pointy occiputs. Only a couple are significantly flat headed.
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Post by OdinofOssetia on Dec 5, 2005 22:59:04 GMT -5
Then you have a weird family.
It is not like we can actually verify your claim either.
It is like in the Bible: "Can a Negroe change the colour of his skin?"
I know there is the Michael Jackson way, but that's not natural.
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Post by Polako on Dec 6, 2005 6:14:06 GMT -5
Actually my grandmother was long headed as well.
Anyway, if dolichocephaly is rising in eastern Europe, then obviously parents with round heads are having children with long heads.
Or are you suggesting that long headed people are now breeding more?
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