Keywords: Topinard nasal index.png en The nasal index a method of classifying ethnicity based on the ratio of the breadth of a nose to its height Developed by the French anthropologist/anthropometrist Paul Topinard 1830-1911 He believed that narrow noses Types 1 - 5 indicated European origin; medium noses Type 6 were the yellow races ; and broad were either African Type 7 or Melanesian and Australian aboriginal Type 8 2011-11-18 Éléments d'anthropologie générale Publisher A Delahaye et É Lecrosnier Paris 1885 page 298 Paul Topinard PD-old Uploaded with UploadWizard Anthropologists from France Ethnicity |