How do dinarics and armenoids differ?

[Dragonair]

I seem to have some problems differentiating these two racial types. How do they differ?
(And no, it's not about me)

[Ace Rimmer]

DINARID (Adriatic (Deniker); Epirotic)
Central and southeastern Europid, named with reference to the Dinaric Alps. The Dinarid is considered a Taurid, being a product of the dinaricization of an ancestral population of uncertain affiliation (a Borreby-like Cro-Magnoid type has been suggested). Dinarids are typically brachycephalic and planoccipital, long-faced and long- and convex-nosed, and intermediate to dark in pigmentation. They are most common in the Balkans, especially in the region of former Yugoslavia, and a Dinarid "belt" extends from France through southern Germany, the Alps and northern Italy, terminating in the western shoreline populations of the Black Sea. Cf. Norid.
DINARICIZATION
An evolutionary process involving brachycephalization, flattening of the occipital region, and development of a long and prominent nasal apparatus, typically of extreme convexity. Dinaricization, whatever its precise nature, could be an adaptation to life in mountainous regions, and is allegedly correlated with herding populations. The Eurasian Taurid types (including the European Dinarid) are classic examples of dinaricization, but a tendency may also be observed outside of the Europid group, e.g. in certain Indianid populations. Based on observations made by the budding physical anthropologist Byron O. Hughes in his doctor's thesis (The Physical Anthropology of Native Born Armenians), Coon explained the special set of features as the divergent outcome of interbreeding between Alpinid and Mediterranid populations of certain proportions (2/3 Mediterranid, 1/3 Alpinid; see The Races of Europe, Photographic Supplement, plate 35). It has also been suggested that brachycephalized Cro-Magnoids and/or similar strains have been involved in the various formations.

ARMENOID
Near Eastern Taurid parafamily, pertaining to the Armenid (relatively unmixed Taurid), Anatolid (Mediterranid-mixed Armenid), Assyrid and Caucasid (Dinarid-mixed Armenid) types.
Mostly brunet, large-headed Taurid type, first carefully described by von Luschan (as Armenoid). It resembles the European Dinarid, with the main exceptions of greater absolute facial dimensions and a larger nose. Armenids are prevalent among Armenians, and common throughout the Middle East, where they blend with Arabids to produce an easily recognizable Middle Eastern phenotype (cf. Assyrid). According to Coon, the Armenid (Armenoid, in his typology) type is the result of dinaricization of Iranids (Irano-Afghans, in his typology). Cf. Anatolid, Caucasid.


IRANID (Irano-Afghan (Coon))
The relatively tall, dolicho-mesocephalic, long-faced, high-headed and hook-nosed type prevalent in Iran, Afghanistan and adjacent territories. In the typology of von Eickstedt, it is an Orientalid subtype, which thereby relates it to the Arabid. Others regard it as an "East-Mediterranid"-Arabid blend, but the Iranid is morhologically more similar to Mediterranids and even Nordids (cf. Corded type) than to Arabids.

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[Dragonair]

Armenoids are found throught Europe as well, right?

[Ace Rimmer]

Not really.Occasionally.

[Dragonair]

http://images.google.co.il/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=iw&safe=active&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Savonarola&spell=1
Savonarola is one of many Europeans Iv'e seen who is clearly armenoid. Armenoids are Indo-European, right?

[Ace Rimmer]

That's a 15th century painting.
Indo-European is a group of languages.

[Dragonair]

That's a 15th century painting.
Indo-European is a group of languages.
He's still unavoidably armenoid.

[Ace Rimmer]

He's still unavoidably armenoid.

His 15th century portrait, maybe.

[annoying bitch]

http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/3066/drkdinarisch1mz0.th.jpg (http://img182.imageshack.us/my.php?image=drkdinarisch1mz0.jpg) http://img182.imageshack.us/img182/6076/fischerlex2kn5.th.jpg (http://img182.imageshack.us/my.php?image=fischerlex2kn5.jpg)

"Dinarid" is just gracilized, less extreme Armenid, IMO. The Armenid looks almost like a mild case of microcephaly.