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Shape variability and classification of human hair: a worldwide approach.
Human biology - 1 Jun 2007
De la Mettrie Roland, Saint-Léger Didier, Loussouarn Geneviève, Garcel Annelise, Porter Crystal, Langaney André
Abstract excerpt
Human hair has been commonly classified according to three conventional ethnic human subgroups, that is, African, Asian, and European. Such broad classification hardly accounts for the high complexity of human biological diversity, resulting from both multiple and past or recent mixed origins. The research reported here is intended to develop a more factual and scientific approach based on physical features of...
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