Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 73. (Budapest 1981)
Gladkova, T. D. ; Tóth, T.: The dermatoglyphics of Hungarians from Szendrő
due to the increased frequency of type 11D. Near the Taktabáj group Udmurts are located, having a rather high percentage of loops and hypothenar patterns along with the high frequency t (see GLADKOVA & TÓTH 1979). We have compared the Szendrő dermatoglyphic data with those of some other peoples that were not included in our diagrams due to the absence of the whole set of traits chosen for the analysis. Thus, it was noted that judging by the frequency of loops and whorls the Szendrő group is close to the Hungarians of Kiskunlacháza and Pereg from the Middle Danube basin (GYENIS 1975). The Szendrő group differs from the southern Slavic group inhabiting the area between Danube and Tisza rivers near the Yugoslavian border (GYENIS 1978) by lower frequency of loops and hypothenar patterns and higher frequency of whorls. If compared with the male group of Neapolitans (AMORE & GALGANO 1966) as the representatives of southern Europoids, the Szendrő group has a significantly higher frequency of carpal triradius and lower values of the Cummins index, though both groups are similar by the frequency of patterns on hypothenar and type 11D. Thus, our sample from Szendrő (northern Palóts) by dermatoglyphic traits is on the whole within the variations characteristic for Caucasoid peoples. Revealing the crossing similarity with different ethnic-territorial groups of Hungary the Szendrő series is closer to the north-eastern groups of Gacsáj and Taktabáj (the combination of the delta and the Cummins indices), as well as to the southern Palóts— from Mezőkövesd (the frequency of loops, whorls and pattern on pads III and IV and from Gyöngyöstarján (the frequency of carpal triradius). The above-mentioned similarity between Hungarians from Szendrő and Bashkirs, Udmurts and Mansis ivdelsky characterized by traits of the Uralian race is insignificant. The slight admixture of the "Mongoloid" complex in the northern regions of Hungary, especially in Szendrő and Taktabáj, that can be seen in the dermatoglyphic traits which are more ancient and genetically determined morphological features, may be to some degree explained by the preservation of some traits of eastern tribes that invaded the territory of Hungary at the end of first millenium —beginning of the second millenium A. D. According to T. A. TÓTH (1977), somatological and odontological data also confirm the prevalence of different components of the European race stock in mosaic composition of Hungarian male population.
