НАСКОЛЬКО ГРЕКИ БЛИЗКИ ДРУГИМ НАРОДАМ ПО ИХ ДАКТИЛОСКОПИЧЕСКИМ ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКАМ?
HOW MUCH ARE THE GREEKS CLOSE TO THE OTHER PEOPLES BY THEIR ANTHROPOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS?

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the typological distances between different ethnic groups of the Greeks in comparison to Russians and other people. For comparison we also measured the ethno-typological distances between some peoples of Finno-Ugric origin: Vyru (South Estonian), North Estonian (Haapsalu), Mansi and some other ethnic groups. The distances are based on the fingerprints, that is, dactyloscopic characteristics which usually reflect the human genome well enough. The smaller the distances, the more similar are the groups. The great values of ethno-typological distances between Greeks and Russians, or Greeks and Swedes or Greeks and Mansi Sosva, Mansi Vagil and Ivdel Mansi may speak for their different origin. On the contrary, small values of the dactyloscopic distances may speak for their close ethic contacts. So, the Greek anthropological characteristics indicate that Greeks are very close to the Irani, namely an Iranian ethnic group which lives near the Caspian Sea – TMB = 1.65. It may be because of the fact that the Persians drove some Greek group to Iran in the old times. The Greeks began speaking the Iranian language but their dactyloscopic distances remained the same. The ethno-typological differences caused the dialect differences. The tendency was discovered for the two ethnic groups of Estonians: Vyro (Southern) and Haapsala (Northern). Two ethnic groups of Nenets: Northern and Southern also have different dialects. Therefore, ethnic substratum causes the dialect differences.

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