Mankind
Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Winter 2002)
pp. 121-153
The Origin of the Baltic-Finns
from the Physical Anthropological Point of View.
Makku Niskanen [Full
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The author provides a comprehensive analysis of the
physical anthropology of the Finns and Saami, comparing
them with other Scandinavian peoples and contrasting
them genetically with the Mongoloid peoples of Asia,
notwithstanding the affinities which link the Finnish
language with the Uralic and to a lesser extent the
Altaic languages. He concludes that both the Finns
and the Saami are genetically Caucasoid or European,
and that the Finns especially are closely akin to
the other North European peoples of Scandinavia.
