Aquiline Features before OOA movement?

[oshun]

I have a question. Is there any evidence of skulls with Aquiline features before the OOA movement or even before body plan adaptations to cold climates?

[sundiata]

^Not necessarily but peep this:

As already discussed in Chapters 5 and 6, a number of African populations have an elongated body build, with narrow head, face, and nose. Their skin is dark(in varying degree), their hair is spiralled, and they have thick but everted lips. In many of these people, such as the Tutsi of Rwanda and Burundi and related Hima of Uganda, the Masai of the East African steppes and the Ful communities of the Western Sudanic savanna, there is no evidence of an exotic(Arabic or North African) element in their gene pool. Their physical features can best explained in terms of genetic adaptation to dry heat. Apparently they represent the result of a peculiar evolution in the semi-arid crescent which caps sub-Saharan Africa to the north and northeast.


Jean Hiernaux
The People of Africa (Peoples of the World Series)

pg 126

[jari]

Exactly, also don't forget that Europeans are from a more RECENT population of AMH's compared to say Asians. Its fairly obvious what the AMH's who first left Africa look like, all one has to do is look at South East Asians and Melanasians, and those populations rarely have so called "Aquiline Features". If anything Europeans descend from a population of Africans who had both Broad as well as Fine Features. As shown by Sundjaita these features are an adaption to dry climates.

[jari]

A good Image..illustrates beautifully..

[zarahan]

Tropical Africans are the most diverse phenotypically in the world. Aquiline features are nothing special, nothing new, and would be around prior to OOA.