Averaged female faces across Europe
in Evolution 
Here’s a cool slide that was shown during the Ancestral Health Symposium. It’s the average of many female faces from different countries in Europe.
As you can see an average face tends to be beautiful, in every country. But that’s not the point that this slide was supposed to make. This is evolution at work.
All these women have common ancestors, but a few thousand years of semi-isolation has led to a divergence of their genetic averages. Continuing isolation would eventually lead to these people diverging into different species of humans. I guess that would take hundreds of thousands of years of isolation though. Not likely to ever happen.
Another piece of information from the conference: Only 14% of the American population completely believes in evolution. If you happen to belong to the other 86%, then feel free to make up another story about the faces.
PS
Do you want to see average female faces from across the world? Here’s a bigger and better-quality picture.
Update august 19
WOW! A huge number of people are reading this post as it just went viral on Reddit. I decided to do an update.
If the women at the top demonstrate the difference after a few thousand years of divergence, what would happen after tens of thousands of years?
This:
Average female faces across the world
This is the result of roughly 40,000 years of evolution in semi-isolation.
What kind of difference can result from millions of years of genetic divergence? Here’s an example:
Distant cousins
This is a chimpanzee and a human – distant relatives. Our last common ancestors lived around 5 million years ago, maybe somewhat more.
How will humans evolve in the next five million years? Nobody knows.
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Bearing in mind it is an art project so it may not be strictly scientific.. as some have already pointed out there may be some selection bias.
I don't readily see an explanation at that site as to how these images were made -- I know there is software that can morph one image into another (there was a Michael Jackson Music Video that used this technique as I recall) so it may be some kind of digital composite that averages out the most common features of multiple samples images, or it may also be some form of digital multiple exposure: where each image occupies the same space but is partially transparent; so effectively you see all of them at once.
And Frank, thanks for the proof of unicorns: very enlightening. Let me also share something out of the bible: it gives proof of the existence of talking donkeys (at least one).
1 -- Humans evolved over millions of years, from simpler life forms, with God guiding
2 -- Humans evolved but God had no part in the process
or
3 -- God created humans in present form within the last 10,000 years
32% selected option 1, 15% option 2, 46% option 3 and 7% had no opinion.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/21814/evolution-creationism-intelligent-de...
It does seem unbelievable that this level of ignorance exists and actually seems to have grown in recent decades not just in the USA but also the UK -- I also note that this lunatic brand of evangelical christianity is spreading to developing nations.
As an earlier commenter noted Nan, your experience may be a case of where you live in the USA.
Religion and Science are mutually corrosive -- it seem to me: the more Science is able to explain the Universe around and within us, the less need we have to seek out some magical, supernatural explanation.
And to those who are here to disprove evolution... why are you even here? To cause arguments?
Arguing will result in nothing. Whether anyone else believes that they came from monkeys or an all powerful God created them from scratch, it doesn't affect YOU so there is no point trying to change their mind. So why don't we all stop trying to change each other and let people live their lives eh?
This obesity epidemic started when people thought they should preach what to eat to other people. Let's be a part of the solution, not the problem.
Not to mention whole country/states where human rights (mainly female) and science, come second to religious dogma.
I disagree with Robert mainly because I never signed up to say I was a "tolerant one". Is that a prerequisite of eating an LCHF diet somehow? Especially if being "tolerant" means keeping my mouth shut despite seeing things that are wrong.
There are a great many good people (including many of my family) who go to "church" in one form or another but that is not the same as my pointing out the overall harm, and hate that underlies the organised religions. Including the harm they do to our children's futures by denying them honest scientific knowledge.
BTW we didn't descend from monkeys... we shared a common ancestor with modern-day monkeys, several millions of years ago.
please go to Yemen or rural Pakistan and tell this to a 10 year old girl who wants to go to school or go back in time few hundred years in Europe sit down with Giordano Bruno or Copernicus or Galileo and say that religion does not matter. It still matters today in a big but very concealed way. Alternatively just wait few decades for sharia "law" to take over and see how mindless believe won't affect you.