Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 71. (Budapest 1979)

Tóth, T.: Some problems in the somatology of Hungarian people

Fig. 1. Combinational poligons of some Hungarian and other groups. — Abbreviations : Őg = Őrség, Gj = Göcsej, NW = north-west (Rábaköz), Nk = Nagykunság, Jg — Jászság, P-M = southern Palóc and Matyó Interpretation of results From the data relating to the subject of our studies (Table 1) it can be ascertained that the overwhelming majority of the individuals from the nine ethnogeographical groups as well as from the Central-Danubian variant are characterized by dark hair-colour. The high percentage of the mixed eye-colour with the exception of the inhabitants of territory Őrség is of the same significance. The manifestation of this pigment characters is very important for evaluating the heterogeneity of the investigated ethnogeographical groups. The growth of beard is generally of middle extension, that of the chest-hair in majority of the groups below the average. On the basis of the morphological facial height the investigated ethnogeographical groups of Hungarian people are characterized by a face of medium or somewhat beneath medium height. Relatively long face is characteristic for the north-western group (Rábaköz), but towards the Middle-Tisza Basin an increase of the facial bredth seems very impressive. According to correlation between the main cephalic diameters the investigated male populations are characterized by hyperbrachycephaly. It deserves attention the similarity between the data of facial bredth of the Europoid Ossets and the Kiptshaks from Kazakhstan having a high Mongoloid component. This is a convincing evidence for the unsuitability of the bizygomatic values to separate the main taxonomical components