Alpine race

[7] The Alpine race was described as having moderate stature, neotenous features,[dubious – discuss] and specific cranial measurements, such as a high cephalic index.

[8][page needed] The term "Alpine" (H. Alpinus) was used to denote a sub-race of the Caucasian race, first defined by William Z. Ripley (1899), but originally proposed by Vacher de Lapouge.

It is equivalent to Joseph Deniker's "Occidental" or "Cevenole" race,[9][10] while Jan Czekanowski regarded it as a subrace consisting of a mixture of Nordic and Armenoid.

In the early 20th century, the Alpine race was popularised by numerous anthropologists, such as Thomas Griffith Taylor and Madison Grant, as well as in Soviet era anthropology.

Mussolini is a typical representative of our Alpine raceThe fact that there are no sharp distinctions between the supposed racial groups had been observed by Blumenbach and later by Charles Darwin.

Typically they were portrayed as "sedentary": solid peasant stock, the reliable backbone of the European population, but not outstanding for qualities of leadership or creativity.

Close approximations to this type appear also in the Balkans and in the highlands of western and central Asia, suggesting that its ancestral prototype was widespread in Late Pleistocene times.

It may have served in both Pleistocene and modern times as a bearer of the tendency toward brachycephalization into various population.A debate concerning the origin of the Alpine race in Europe, involving Arthur Keith, John Myres and Alfred Cort Haddon was published by the Royal Geographical Society in 1906.

Meanwhile, European Alpines can be found in Central and Eastern Europe, including Greece due to their racial affinities with the Slavs, and southern France.