Once upon a time “biological anthropologists” used what was known as taxonomic classifications to classify the various human races physically, not just as white or Asian or black but more specificially as for example for Europeans Nordic, or Alpinid. Of course, needless to say this became highly controversial and is no longer widely talked about to-day. However we’ve had a discussion on eugenics before (with most people not being racists), so why not this? Note that this is purely physical and racial classification does not mean (hopefully) claims of racial superiority or inferiority.
Body-hair-wise, I wonder if I’m a Homo sapiens neanderthalensis. Mousterian epoch, perhaps.
Sorry, I know that’s an echo of real science, not the Victorian horse-pucky you were asking for, but it is (was) a sub-species, so close enough.
Perhaps you’re curious about particular alleles of specific genes that each of us suspect we might possess, and what that might suggest about the geographic wanderings of some of our ancestors. Well, I have Cavalli-Svorza’s door-stopping tome, and it has nice maps, but I’m not astute enough to understand most of the genetics. There have been a few threads on the Dope about people who have voluntarily undergone genetic profiling, hoping to learn something interesting about their ancestry.
You know that picture of the evolution of man, which goes from monkeys on all fours to a man standing erect? I’m the next panel, of man walking while leaning backwards. Not sure there’s a name for that yet.
