Aryans Compared with Melanochroi
Thomas Allen
The two races, more correctly, species, of humans most commonly confused are Aryans and Melanochroi. Many people lump the two together as Caucasian, which makes Caucasian a poor racial name that leads to confusion.
Aryans are also known as Whites, White Caucasians, Europeans, and Homo albus. Aryan racial types include Nordics (a.k.a. Cymric, Aryans, Teutonics), East Baltics (a.k.a. East Europeans, Orientals), Alpines (a.k.a. Celts, Celto-Slavs, Ligurians, Arvernians, Cymric), Mediterraneans (a.k.a. Iberians), Dinarics (a.k.a. Adriatics, Illyrians), Armenians (a.k.a. Assyrians, Anatolians), Southern Mediterraneans (a.k.a. Northern Hamites, Libyans, Atlanteans, Libyo-Teutonics), Pamiri, Northern Semites (a.k.a. Northern Arabs, Chaldeans), Iranians (a.k.a. Irano-Mediterraneans), and Indo-Afghans. In the Eastern Hemisphere, Aryans are the predominant people in Europe, Lebanon, Syria, northern and central Iraq, Iran (except Khuzistan, the coastal regions, and Baluchistan), eastern Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, northwest India, western Kashmir, Maghreb coast, Tunis, Tripolitania, and Cyrenaica.
Melanochroi are also known as Brown Caucasians and Homo brunus. Melanochroic racial types include Saharan-Hamites (a.k.a. Moors, Saharan-Berbers), Eastern-Hamites (a.k.a. Ethiopians), Egyptians, Orientals (a.k.a. Arabs, Southern Arabs), Indo-Iranians (a.k.a. Hindus), and Dravidians (a.k.a. Asiatic Negroes, Melano-Hindus). In the Eastern Hemisphere, Melanochroi are the predominate people in and around the Sahara Desert (central and southern Morocco, central and southern Algeria, Mauritania, northern Mali, Niger, northern Chad, and southern and central Libya), Egypt, eastern Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, the Arabian peninsula, southern Iraq, Khuzistan, the coastal regions of Iran, Baluchistan, central and southern Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka.
Physical Description
Skin color
Aryan: light with reddish or pinkish tones; reflectivity of 50–64 percent, Luschan’s Hautfarbentafel of 1–17 (except 4–6).
Melanochroi: light yellowish brown to reddish brown to dark brown; reflectivity of 23–41 percent, Luschan’s Hautfarbentafel of 18–29.
Hair color
Aryan: varying in color from dark brown to light brown, light chestnut, reddish brown, flaxen; relatively high frequency of blondness; grays early.
Melanochroi: dark brown to black.
Head hair
Aryan: soft; fine texture; wavy or straight, sometimes curly; elliptic cross-section; tendency to baldness.
Melanochroi: curly or fizzy in the Hamitic branch; straight or wavy in the Indian branch.
Facial hair
Aryan: often highly developed.
Melanochroi: moderate beard development; some full, some scant.
Body hair
Aryan: medium to strong development.
Melanochroi: usually scant.
Face
Aryan: orthognathous; middle region of the face projects rather strongly, but cheekbones and jaws are not prominent; relatively narrow with slight cheekbones and few or no angles; typically oval in outline.
Melanochroi: orthognathous; elongated, oval; jaws not projecting.
Forehead
Aryan: straight to slightly sloping; medium to high.
Melanochroi: high.
Eyes
Aryan: corners at one level.
Melanochroi: straight, almond-shaped.
Eye color
Aryan: brown, but many with green, grey, light blue, and dark blue.
Melanochroi: light brown to dark brown or black.
Eyelids
Aryan: fold of eyelid weakly developed; conjunctiva bluish to pearly white.
Melanochroi: —
Nose
Aryan: leptorrhine; narrow with fairly high bridge; long axes of the nostrils are placed in an almost straight line from back to front.
Melanochroi: generally prominent; straight or arched; round at the points; delicate nostrils.
Lips
Aryan: medium to thin; do not project.
Melanochroi: medium or thick; some thin; never protruding.
Mouth
Aryan: —
Melanochroi: moderate size.
Teeth
Aryan: microdont; small to medium; mildly and uniformly concave upper incisors on the lingual side.
Melanochroi: white; regular; a little projecting.
Chin
Aryan: medium to strongly developed.
Melanochroi: fairly prominent; often pointed.
Ears
Aryan: medium size; relatively narrow and long; lobule does not hang low.
Melanochroi: —
Head shape
Aryan: all three types (dolichocephalic, mesocephalic, and brachycephalic) are widespread.
Melanochroi: dolichocephalic, some mesocephalic; oblong; round-domed skull.
Body characteristics
Aryan: mesomorphy; upper arm and leg generally longer than lower arm and leg; legs and torso medium to long in length; legs shapely and full; in women legs stout and in apposition when standing; buttocks sometimes with a slight over-development of fat; long sitting height.
Melanochroi: ectomorphy; slender; symmetrical; legs shapely with calves well developed.
Female breast
Aryan: generally hemispherical; small areola.
Melanochroi: hemispherical.
Feet and hands
Aryan: feet small to large, well arched; hands small to large.
Melanochroi: feet small with high instep.
Stature
Aryan: average to tall.
Melanochroi: average to below average; some tall.
Reference
Allen, Thomas Coley. Species of Men: A Polygenetic Hypothesis. Franklinton, North Carolina: TC Allen Company, 1999.
Copyright © 2026 by Thomas Coley Allen.
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