Is your second toe longer than your big toe?

Lady Liberty has it, Cleopatra had it… and so did the Neanderthals.

Are there physical traits rh negative people have?

Looking for physical similarities standing out among people with Rh negative blood types wasn’t something I was looking for:

It was information coming my way.

Many of you have in the past 14 years provided me with valuable information both coming to me unexpectedly as well as responding to some of my requests when I wished to gather a wider perspective with larger numbers of Rh negatives.

Be it with the occipital bun, reddishness in hair or central heterochromia, it appears that there are certain traits much more common among us than the general populations.

Whenever I search for more information, there doesn’t seem to be an end to it, such as the recent coming across of older articles describing a high frequency of the occipital bun in the Basque population.

As usual, I continue as far back in time as I can and of course, with the occipital bun being a Neanderthal trait, I am brought back to the 1950 Mourant paper where an individual was quotes with his thought of Rh negative blood originating somewhere in the Southwest of France about 50k years ago among “Neanderthaloid-like” beings.

I have always opposed the common narrative that Neanderthals went extinct.

The Neanderthals didn’t go extinct. They were simply outnumbered!

I hardly find such wording appropriate as Neanderthals live on within us.

The “Celtic toe”, “Morton’s toe” or “Greek toe” also appears to lead us back to our Neanderthal ancestors.

As usual, whatever I am personally interested in has been hard to find studies on as those working in the scientific arena are usually scared to publish discoveries they cannot explain in full.

Here is what I have found so far:

All Neanderthal fossil feet and fossil footprints have the big toe shorter than the second toe. All Cro-Magnon fossil feet and fossil footprints show the big toe longer than the second toe.

Recent studies revealed that almost half of the Bulgarian and Greek populations have the Morton’s toe.

History goes back much further to the time when Greek feet were compared to Egyptian ones.

Cleopatra was known to have this, and many consider this trait to be a sign of beauty. Podiatrist/archaeologist Phyllis Jackson has interpreted it as a characteristically Celtic toe, as opposed to a Saxon toe. The French call it … believing it to be a sign of intelligence.

The Statue of Liberty also has a second toe longer than the big one.

Wikipedia expands:

It has a long association with disputed anthropological and ethnic interpretations. Morton called it Metatarsus atavicus, considering it an atavism recalling prehuman grasping toes. In statuary and shoe fitting it has been called the Greek foot (as opposed to the Egyptian foot, where the great toe is longer). A longer second toe has often been associated with royalty, particularly during the rule of the Ptolemaic dynasty when Egypt was under Greek rulership. It was an idealized form in Greek sculpture, and this persisted as an aesthetic standard through Roman and Renaissance periods and later (the Statue of Liberty has toes of this proportion). There are also associations found within Celtic groups. The French call it commonly pied grec (just as the Italians call it piede greco), but sometimes pied ancestral or pied de Néanderthal.

I have not been able to find anything on frequencies within Celtic nations and populations or among the Yamnaya.