Eurasian (mixed ancestry)
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| Official population numbers are unknown; United States: 1,623,234 (2010) England and Wales: 341,727 (2011) Netherlands: 369,661 (2015) |
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 United States Netherlands United Kingdom Malaysia Hong Kong Singapore Macau
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A Eurasian is a person of mixed Asian and European ancestry. In 19th-century British India, Eurasians – later called Anglo-Indians – were of mixed Portuguese, Dutch, British, Indian, or, more rarely, French descent, but now their parentage may be from other parts of South, East, and Southeast Asia. The term has been used in anthropological literature since the 1960s. It may also be extended to those of Central Asian heritage.
Russia, the largest country geographically, is the Eurasian country with the largest Eurasian population, extending into both Asia and Europe. Historically, Central Asia has been a "melting pot" of West Eurasia and East Eurasian peoples, leading to high genetic admixture and diversity. Physical and genetic analyses of ancient remains have concluded that – while the Scythians, including those in the eastern Pazyryk region – possessed predominantly features, found among others, in Europoids, mixed Eurasian phenotypes were also frequently present, suggesting that the Scythians as a whole were descended in part from East Eurasian populations.
Anthropologist SA Pletnev studied a group of burials of Kipchaks in the Volga region and found them to have Caucasoid features with some admixture of Mongoloid traits, with physical characteristics such as flat face and distinctly protruding nose. They were nomadic people that, together with the Cumans, ruled areas stretching from Kazakhstan, Caucasus, eastern Europe. Like the Kipchaks, the Cumans invaders of Europe were also of mixed anthropological origins. Excavation at Hungary Csengele, were far from genetic homogeneity showing both Mongoloid and European traits. Five of the six skeletons that were complete enough for anthropometric analysis and they appeared Asian rather than European (Horváth 1978, 2001)
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