Indian Craniometric Variability and Affinities

Table 8

Comparisons between Indians and Worldwide Series on Average Indices (Males)^a.

Index	Indians’ variability	Similarities	Dissimilarities
Cranial	Narrow	Africa, Eskimos, Southwest Pacific, Veddas	Amerindians, Andamans, Buriats, East Asia, and Europe
Vault length-height	Wide	Polynesia/Micronesia, Veddas	Bushmen
Frontal curvature	Narrow	Ainu	Amerindians, Bushmen, Polynesia/Micronesia, and Southwest Pacific
Parietal curvature	Wide	Egypt, Europe, Veddas	Bushmen
Occipital curvature	Wide	Ainu, East Asia	Buriats, Bushmen
Gnathic	Moderate	Egypt, Europe, Polynesia/Micronesia, Veddas	Africa, Southwest Pacific
Posterior craniofacial	Narrow	Europe	Africa, Amerindians, Buriats, Bushmen, Eskimos, Polynesia/Micronesia, and Southwest Pacific
Transverse craniofacial	Narrow	Africa, Ainu	Andamans, Buriats, Bushmen, Egypt, Eskimos, and Europe
Upper facial	Moderate	Amerindians, East Asia, Europe	Bushmen, Egypt, Southwest Pacific, and Veddas
Bizygomatic-bimaxillary	Moderate	Bushmen, Veddas	Ainu, Europe, Southwest Pacific, and Polynesia/Micronesia
Nasal	Narrow	East Asia, Polynesia/Micronesia	Africa, Bushmen, Egypt, Eskimos, Europe, and Southwest Pacific
Orbital	Wide	Ainu, Bushmen, Europe, Southwest Pacific	Amerindians, Andamans, and Polynesia/Micronesia
Frontal flatness	Wide	None	All except Veddas and Egypt
Orbital flatness	Wide	None (Vedda comparison unavailable)	All except Veddas (comparison unavailable)
Maxillary flatness	Moderate	Andamans, Egypt, Veddas	Ainu, Buriats, Bushmen, East Asia, and Eskimos
Nasodacryal	Wide	Amerindians, Egypt, Eskimos, Europe (Vedda comparison unavailable)	Africa, Buriats, Bushmen, and East Asia
Simotic	Wide	Amerindians, Europe	Africa, Andamans, Buriats, Bushmen, East Asia, and Southwest Pacific

a“Africa” and “East Asia” in this table respectively correspond to “other Africa” and “other East Asia” in Figures 3–5.