Earth’s Most Typical Human

As we entered 2011, we posted National Geographic‘s awesome video infographic that opened its yearlong series examining the challenges and solutions we face as the worldwide population reaches 7 billion people this year. Nat Geo recently released this related video, and I’m sure many of you have already seen it! It asks an intriguing question: “Who is the World’s Most Typical Person?” But everyone’s unique, right? Well, by taking into account a variety of factors incuding sex, ages, dexterity, nationality, ethnicity, and 190,000 photos, their expert team has come up with a precise visualization of the face of the most typical 28 year old right-handed Han Chinese Male.

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An awesome post. Informative, enjoyable and brief. Useful for putting some xenophobic westerners in their place at dinner conversations!

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