I found this after some Heraclitus-inspired research... (link below of a website that showcases composite images to predict what future human populations in various cities would look like)
Cool concept but what really struck out to me was the fact that everybody looks basically the same. I suppose composites by being the mean of a population sort of harken to the most basic human 'racial' model and well, by throwing in Black and Asian Londoners for example into the English stock you would get more of a human average. But it's still striking how same everyone looks. Is it just me or does everyone look like Arabs and Latinos?
For example, try to match some of the following male composites with their cities:
The cities are:
Sydney
London
Florence
Amsterdam
Cologne
Nicosia, Cyprus
Damascus
Lisbon
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
The website has more cities as well as female composites and shows the people that were combined into the composites.
Cool concept but what really struck out to me was the fact that everybody looks basically the same. I suppose composites by being the mean of a population sort of harken to the most basic human 'racial' model and well, by throwing in Black and Asian Londoners for example into the English stock you would get more of a human average. But it's still striking how same everyone looks. Is it just me or does everyone look like Arabs and Latinos?
For example, try to match some of the following male composites with their cities:
The cities are:
Sydney
London
Florence
Amsterdam
Cologne
Nicosia, Cyprus
Damascus
Lisbon
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Aires
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The website has more cities as well as female composites and shows the people that were combined into the composites.
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