CIA World Factbook entries for a few nations which are largely inhabited by a hybrid Caucasoid-Mongoloid population. The wide geographical region from the Urals to the frontiers of China is largely inhabited by a population of mixed stock, formed in prehistoric times and later, with movements of Iranic tribes to the east, Turkic-Mongolian tribes to the west and more recently Europeans (mainly Slavs) to the east.
Kazakhstan
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Turkmenistan
Kyrgyzstan
Some pictures from Corbis:
Uzbek woman of hybrid type:

Turkmen women of Caucasoid type:


Kazakh woman of predominantly Mongoloid type:

Are Mongolians hybrid?
If so are Northern Chinese hybrid (like the rather long-headed picture in your gallery below)?
Mongolians are predominantly Mongoloid, although they do have West Eurasian genetic influence to a small degree. This is negligible in the Chinese, as far as I know. Also, Mongoloids have overwhelmingly black hair, but not always.
Posted by: Dienekes at July 27, 2003 05:33 AMthe uighers & to a lesser extent hui would show more caucasoid influence than the mongolians....
Posted by: razib at July 27, 2003 01:14 PMI'm in china btw, I saw some of em recently razib, they even look a bit indian/arabian too.
Looking at the CIA links, it seems strangly there is a german town called Rotfront inside Kyrgyzstan. Made up of deported Germans from the 1940's. Guess the germans did get some lebens raum after all eh.
The girl with the freckles looks like a less attractive version of my ex Irish-Protestant girlfriend! Very Celtic.
Is the girl Slav? A hybrid? I've been to cenral and eastern Europe and she doesn't like the peoples of those regions.
She doesn't look like a Balt either; my current girlfriend is Lithuanian, so I've been around Lithuanians a great deal, they look nothing like her.
She's probably Russian, but she doesn't look Russian...I'm perplexed.
Posted by: friedrich braun at July 27, 2003 09:33 PM"Looking at the CIA links, it seems strangly there is a german town called Rotfront inside Kyrgyzstan. Made up of deported Germans from the 1940's."
I thought that most (if not all) went back to Germany after the collapse of the Soviet Union? Any Germans left in the caucasian republics?
Posted by: friedrich braun at July 27, 2003 09:36 PMthere is a group, i believe the yangbonis, who are descended from the sogdians, who are close genetically to northwest europeans....
Posted by: razib at July 27, 2003 10:01 PM
Fredrich, article re germans living in Kyrgyzstan.
http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/media/magazines/articles/dill.html
Posted by: Stephen at July 28, 2003 01:12 AMI'm from Kazakhstan and I have blue eyes. My older brother also has blue eyes and he's 1,90 metres tall. It's not normal but everybody knows someone who knows someone who has blue eyes (and who is not a European).
My grandmother used to tell stories about how Kazakhs in olden times used to be very blonde, but that the Mongols came and killed a lot of them, and married with the rest. The history books say likewise. The blonde hair and other white features disappeared for a time, and then children started being born with blonde hair and so on, and they still turn up from time to time.
I don't think it happens very often because of intermarriage with Russians or Germans. That almost never happens, and the few mixed families that I knew mostly returned home to the European father's home country. You can also tell because people with half-European blood mostly don't look like normal Kazakhs, and if they have blue eyes or green eyes the colour is sort of different than those of a pure Kazakh. There was a mixed family in our old neighbourhood in Almaty (we left about 3 years ago) where the wife had red hair and blue eyes, but she was from Afghanistan. She said there are some provinces in that country that have a lot of light haired and light eyed people.
There are Chinese out there with blue eyes. Mainly northern or silk road Chinese.
Posted by: wayne at October 7, 2003 11:07 AM