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That's really curious. I wouldn't have imagined that the use of hammocks could led to this trait.I'm also really curious about where the stereotypical flat-headed type of cearense came from. There's an urban legend here in Ceará that the flat-headed people (cabeças-chatas) weren't born that way, their head was shaped that way because they slept and spent too much time lying on hammocks (a cearense house without hammocks is a useless abomination, as you know, lol), so the top of their head was gradually modified by that. I'm not sure I that's even credible, though... lol But it's indeed a bit strange that we seem to see more flat-headed people in older generations than in younger ones.
Wow really? I thought at least some of the features of my close black and caboclo (Amerindian-European) ancestors would be visible in my face. :-o What I notice, though, is mainly that I can tan very much, so that I can look nearly white when I'm too long away from sun exposure, but I can also get a quite darkish brown toneif I get under heavy sun exposure for several days.
Now I wonder what other Eupedia members would think about my phenotype.
https://imgur.com/a/eKOJzlH
As for the older generations in NE, apart the head shape, they seem shorter. The new generation of Northeasterners would be substantially taller. At least this is my notion. It likely has to do with diet.
I confess I'm not that knowledgeable in phenotypes, but my first impression was of an Iberian looking, independently of the skin tone. Let's see if other members think the same.