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There are 4 basic human races in the world that anthropologists agree on.
These 4 different racial classifications in the world are:
These 4 racial categories have a combined 22 subgroups.
They are grouped based on their phenotypes.
A phenotype refers to a race’s observable physical characteristics.
These are common physical traits, like:
A human race gets defined as a group of people with common inherited features.
These inherited features help us distinguish them from other groups of people.
Anthropologists or biologists classify the entire human race as homo sapiens.
All of the different races have 99.99% of the same genetic makeup.
Genetic variations only make up 0.01% of genetic differences in the different human groups.
The differences between races are subjective phenotypes.
The concept of race is a cultural separation, not a genetic one.
These 0.01% differences are physical features from human evolution.
The human evolutions stem from different human groups’ migrations to different regions.
Here is a list of the 4 human races in the world.
And a list of the sub-races (subspecies) for each basic race.
Here is the world race pie chart.
It breaks out the world population by race percentages.
The Negroid race is comprised of the following groups of people:
The Negroid race is commonly found in Sub-Sahara Africa.
They get characterized by their:
Archeologists believe that the Negroids are the earliest human race in the world.
This makes the Negroid lineage older than all of the other races in the world.
It’s thought that the human species began on the African continent.
The Caucasoid race is comprised of the following groups of people:
The Caucasoid race is commonly found in Europe, North America, and the Middle East.
They get characterized by their:
Archeologists believe that the Caucasoids (Caucasians) developed:
Note that Hispanics are “not a race.”
The US Census Bureau does not classify Hispanics as their own race.
And Hispanics either identify themselves as:
The Mongoloid race is comprised of the following groups of people:
The Mongoloid race is commonly found in East Asia.
They get characterized by their:
Compared to the other human races, Asian races have less hair.
Some believe that less facial hair is an adaptation to wearing thick coats.
Some believe that their facial structure helps them adapt to brutally cold weather.
They also developed the epicanthic fold on their eyelids to deal with the cold.
The Mongoloids that migrated North had to endure harsh freezing temperatures.
These migrations led them to live in Siberia and other northern parts of Asia and America.
This phenotype has the largest human population in the world.
The Australoid race is comprised of the following groups of people:
The Mongoloid race is commonly found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
They get characterized by their:
Archeologists believe that the Australoids developed:
They maintained the Negroid genomes because their lineage always remained close to the equator.
