"...the race issue was mentioned a little on the site Anton gave." I dug around there a bit. Their only comment on race that I could find was in "The Evidence," which asserts that if their theory is true, then the PHI mask should apply to faces thought beautiful by all cultures. They illustrate that it "does" with images of 13 Caucasian women and the Egyptian Queen Nefertiti. "All cultures"? A timeline tour of Western beauties of the centuries, anchored by a sculpture that we, not necessarily the ancient Eqyptians, regard as beautiful. Not very persuasive. They finally lost me when I got to the "archetypal theory" and their assertion that fitting the PHI ideal is not just an image of "beauty," but an image of "humanness." I Quote: "That is, it is the way we identify our own species, and individuals within our species." Wow. Combine that with the page that shows an "attractive" Aryan face degenerating by steps into an "unattractive" face with a broad nose, and I think I know this place I've wandered into, better than I wish I did. I'll shut up now. Except to say that Stephen Jay Gould has written some excellent books and essays on racially and culturally biased "sciences."