Negroid race. Australo-Negroid race

Almost all of the inhabitants of Sub-Saharan Africa are of the Negroid race, which includes three minor races.

Pygmies, traditionally hunting and gathering in the equatorial forests, represent the Negrillic race. They are distinguished by their small stature (on average about 140 cm), thin lips and a wide nose. Representatives of the pygmy race are quite small in number.

The San (Bushmen) and Koikoin (Hottentots) in South Africa form the Khoisan race. Their skin is lighter and wrinkled than that of Negroids, rather yellowish. Other features of the Khoisans are epicanthus (Mongolian eyelid), steatopygia; this is the name of the body's tendency to form a thick layer of fat on the thighs and buttocks. Now the Khoisans are few in number and live mainly in Botswana, Namibia, southern Angola and Zambia, but they once occupied much larger territories - apparently, the entire southern half of Africa.

The most numerous of the Negroid minor races is the Negro. Its representatives are distinguished by dark skin and eyes, curly hair, wide noses with low bridge of the nose, thick lips. But within this race the differences are also very great: for example, the peoples living in the upper reaches of the Nile are very tall, thin-boned and have very dark skin; the inhabitants of the Guinean coast of West Africa are more squat and stocky ...

The inhabitants of Ethiopia, the West Sudanese people of the Fulbe, as well as some peoples living on the southern border of the Sahara, are classified as a mixed Negroid-Caucasian race. Madagascar is inhabited by Mongoloids from Southeast Asia, mixed with Negroids. The Berbers and Arabs who roam the Sahara and live along its southern border belong to the Mediterranean species of the Caucasoid race.

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Caucasoid race

The Caucasoid race is subdivided into a number of types: Nordic, Atlanto-Baltic, Sub-Adriatic, Falsky, East Baltic, Central-East European, Mediterranean, Balkan-Caucasian, Front-Asian, Caspian, Indo-Afghan types.

Nordic type

Widespread among the population of Northern Europe - northern Russians, Kashubians, Komi, northern Karelians, western Estonians, western Latvians, southwestern Finns, Swedes, most of the Norwegians, Germans of the northwestern regions of Germany, Dutch, British, Irish, northern French and etc.

Characteristic features: head index - meso-dychocephaly, physique - leptosomal, normosseous, height - tall, hair structure - straight wavy, hair color - blond ash-blond golden-blond light-brown light-brown dark-blond, nape - convex, face - leptoprosopia, the forehead is high, somewhat oblique, the location of the eyes is horizontal, the eye shape is characterized by a long eye shape, eye color is blue / gray, the nose is long, narrow, straight, protruding, the base of the nose is high, the tip of the nose is horizontal, sometimes raised, pointed, the lower jaw is deep, the lips are thin, the chin is narrow, angular, protruding, the growth of the beard and mustache is developed, the growth of body hair is normal, the skin is thin, white with a pinkish tinge.

Atlanto-Baltic type

Distributed in the UK, Scandinavian countries, Latvia and Estonia. It is characterized by very light pigmentation of the skin, eyes and hair, long nose length, mesocephaly, strong development of the tertiary hairline, high growth.

Sub-Adriatic (Nori) type

The type singled out by some anthropologists, called the sub-Adriatic (I. Deniker) or Nori, or Norik (the name was given by V. Lebzelter), from the Roman province of Norik, is close to the Dinaric type, the Balkan-Caucasian race.

I. Deniker described this type as subbrachycephalic, less often brachycephalic, of medium height, with brown hair, an average height of about 166 cm and a head index of 82-84. It is distributed in Champagne, Franche-Comte, Luxembourg, in the Dutch province of Zeeland, the Rhine provinces, in the north of the Grand Duchy of Baden, in eastern Bavaria and in southeastern Bohemia; found among Slovenes, and in one part of Lombardy and the Venetian region.

K. Kuhn described the Norik type as a light-colored brachycephalic with a flat nape, often found in southern Germany and elsewhere in central Europe. He considered this type to be a Nordic type, brachycephalized by a Dinaric admixture.

False type

Characteristics. The False race is characterized by the highest growth among Caucasians, a very hypersthenic (stocky) physique, meso-dolichocephaly, broad shoulders, a broad massive lower jaw with a "strong" chin, rather cheeky by Caucasian standards, a wide and short face, developed brow ridges and a low occipital rectangular eye sockets, gray or blue eyes and tough, wavy, reddish blond hair.

Spread. Typical for Westphalia (hence the name of the race); also its representatives are found in Scandinavia, mainly in southwestern Sweden, where the Ertebelle culture existed in antiquity. With the distance from the southwestern border inland, the percentage of people of this race is greatly reduced.

East Baltic type

According to G. Gunther's classification

G. Gunther noted that, in terms of body proportions, the Eastern Baltic race, they are broad-boned and short strong people. Men are distinguished by their large shoulder width. All parts of the body are rough and stocky: a wide, short neck, short arms and fingers, short thick calves, a heavy and large head.

The East Baltic race is short-headed and broad-faced; its skulls are coarser, bony, heavier and, above all, more angular than the eastern ones, they have more thickening and tubercles. But most of all characteristic of the Eastern Baltic race is the large facial part of the skull in comparison with the cerebral part. The cranial index is slightly smaller than that of the Eastern race; the Eastern Baltic skulls are less short. The East Baltic skull is more prominent at the nape than the eastern one. This skull has a broad forehead with tubercles; its width is especially noticeable in the upper part of the forehead.

In profile, the massiveness of the face is noticeable, especially the lower jaw, even in women. The face is taller than that of the Eastern race. The angle of the lower jaw is greater than that of other races, approaching a right angle. Forehead sloping back, but not as large as in the Nordic race. The bridge of the nose is flatter than that of the Eastern race, but the nose protrudes more in the middle and lower part. The bridge of the nose is concave, the nose is turned up at the bottom. The chin goes back and is even less pronounced than that of the eastern race. The forehead is flatter than that of the Eastern race, and wide. The eyebrows are slightly curved upwards. The distance between the inner corners of the eyes is relatively large. The nose usually has a fairly wide and flat bridge and widens strongly downward. The nostrils are mutually located at an obtuse angle. The lower part of the nose is fleshy than that of the eastern race. The nose of the Eastern Baltic race is upturned more than that of other European races, with the exception of the Sudetenland.

The zygomatic bones are more massive than those of other races, and slope slightly outward downward. The facial index is 85 on average. The lower jaw is massive and wide, short and high. The lower part of the face forms a triangle, the sides of which converge at a very obtuse angle at the chin. The width of the face in the cheek area is determined not by fat deposits, but by the width of the lower jaw. The folds from the wings of the nose to the corners of the mouth are very pronounced. The mouth is wider than that of other European races, with the exception of the False.

The eyes appear small because of the relatively short and low slits that rise slightly at the outer ends. The skin is light, with a gray tint, which can become so strong that the skin is no longer perceived as light. This skin can also be "olive gray". Sunburn only makes this skin a little darker. The hair on the head is coarse, light, and usually has a gray tint. The Nordic race can be called golden-light, the Eastern Baltic - ash-light. The eye color is light, rarely actually blue, usually watery blue. Gray eyes are common.

According to G. Gunther, the East Baltic race predominates in the north-east of Europe. The East Baltic race is strong in Finland, with the exception of the south and southwest, and in central and northwestern Russia, with the exception of the areas adjacent to the Baltic. The Baltic peoples have a strong East Baltic admixture.

Mediterranean type

Characteristic features: characterized by a different, often short, asthenic physique, as a rule, a tall face, dark or predominantly dark hair and almond-shaped eyes, more or less dark skin, a long nose, thicker lips than in northern Caucasians, and dolichocephaly.

Representatives

Most of the population of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain), southwestern France, southern and central Italy, southern and eastern Greece, the islands of the Mediterranean, and North Africa. The representatives of the Mediterranean race were the Sumerians, carriers of the Capsian culture, as well as the Minoan civilization of the island of Crete.

Anterior Asian type

The original carriers of this type were Alarodia (ancient Sino-Caucasians). The type formed the basis for some types of the Indo-Iranian-Arabian branch (mixing of the Near Asians with the proto-Mediterranean, and in some areas with the Mongoloids and Australoids). Described in 1911 by von Luschan. In many respects, the Asians approach the Caucasians and Dinars (Balkans), but differ in their small stature, the shape of the nose and the plane of the occiput. Other names of this type: Armenoid, Alarodian, Syrian-Zagrossian, Semitic, Pontic-Zagrossian, Hittite (Anatolian), Assyrioid, Taurian. Deniker called this type Assyrioid and believed that it was characterized by a straight, narrow nose. The frequency of occurrence of the straight nasal dorsum is not geographically linked, this is due to the frequent cross-breeding of Armenians and Jews with other peoples (mainly, if representatives of another people profess Judaism or Gregorianism, since often religious affiliation to a mono-ethnic religion is identified with ethnicity). There are albinos, usually within the central cluster - Western Asian features plus blonde hair and eyes. Some of the alternative names of the Near Asian type are used to denote related types, for example, the Assyrioid type, which is common among Kurds and Assyrians, is less brachycephalic and has a straight narrow nose. Semitic is often called the Semitic-Arabian type.

For the peoples of the Near East type, the second blood group is characteristic.

Whole countries in Central and South America and other parts of the world are inhabited by peoples formed by mixing the features of three large races at once - Mongoloid, Caucasian and Negroid. A reliable classification of these groups has not yet been carried out, although such attempts have already been carried out by anthropologists. We can talk about the emergence of several mixed races at once literally over the past few centuries. And several more races can now be observed in the process of their formation!

) the race is characterized by a very dark color of skin, hair and eyes, curly hair, and an elongated constitution with elongated limbs. Representatives of this race are characterized by a wide cut of the eyes, a wide flat nose, thick lips, narrow hands and feet. They have developed prognathism (jaws protruding forward), the lower jaw is devoid of the chin protrusion, the beard and mustache grow poorly. There is a fairly large phenotypic diversity among Negroids; there are several racially transitional types (Ethiopian, Malagasy).

Historically, the Negroid population has lived in the sub-Saharan African continent (Tropical Africa). Later, as a result of the slave trade, a large number of the inhabitants of Tropical Africa were exported to the countries of the Arab East, and in the 17th-19th centuries. there was a massive export of slaves from the Atlantic coast to North and South America. As a result, to date, the Negroid population constitutes the majority of the population of the West Indies (Jamaica, Bahamas, Haiti, Trinidad, Barbados, Grenada, Martinique, Guadeloupe, etc.) and a significant part (more than 10%) of the inhabitants of the USA, Cuba, Brazil, Panama and a number of other countries in Latin America. Among the most populous countries with a predominance of black populations are Nigeria, Ethiopia, Congo, Tanzania, South Africa. The total number of representatives of the large Negroid race in the world is about 1 billion people (15% of the world's population).

As with other large human races, there is considerable internal variability in the Negroid. The main types (minor races) of the large Negroid race are:

sudanese (Guinean) - distributed in the states of western Africa south of the Sahara (Nigeria, Mali, Ghana, Guinea, Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire

western bantoid - the peoples of the Bantu language group living in the Congo, Angola, Gabon and other states of Central Africa;
east-bantoid - typical for the inhabitants of savanna light forests of Mozambique, Zambia, Tanzania, Zimbabwe;
south African - the population of Namibia, South Africa, Botswana;
pilot - the population of South Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda.

It is interesting!

If the Nilotic tribes are the tallest people on Earth (the average height in their population exceeds 180 cm), then the pygmies of the equatorial forests of the Congo basin are not only a separate racial type of the Negroid race, but also the shortest inhabitants of the planet. The average height of adult pygmies does not exceed 144-150 cm.

Certain types of the large Negroid race include ethiopians 1 and malagasy (Malagash). If the first racial type is transitional from Negroid to Caucasian, then the population of Madagascar has many Mongoloid features, which is due to the participation of immigrants from the territory of modern Indonesia in the settlement of the island in ancient times.

The most controversial is the reckoning of the Khoisan peoples to the Negroid race. The arid regions and deserts of Namibia, Botswana, and South Africa are home to very distinctive groups of people that amazed those who arrived in the 17th century. Europeans with their appearance and clicking language. it bushmen, hottentots and mountain damara... The number of special characteristics among the representatives of these peoples is so great that they are often singled out into a special large race - khoisan.

People of the Khoisan race are distinguished by their short stature, rather flat face with a small lower jaw, which makes the face look almost triangular. They have short, spirally curled hair that tangle in small tufts on the head, although the hair is longer in length than that of neighboring Negroid peoples. The nose of the Bushmen and Hottentots, in comparison with the Negroids, is narrow, the bridge of the nose is very flat. Special signs are increased and early wrinkling of the skin, a peculiar pattern of the auricle, with geatopygia in women, pronounced lumbar lordosis, etc. Such signs as epicanthus and a relatively light yellowish-brown skin color resemble the Mongoloid racial type. However, the similarity is very superficial, and the anthropological type of the Koisan peoples, judging by the paleoanthropological remains, originally developed in Africa. Moreover, earlier it was distributed much further to the north, but already in historical time, the Bantu-speaking Negroid groups drove the Bushmen and Hottentots to the arid regions of southern Africa.

Modern research in the field of inheritance on the Y chromosome has established that among the Bushmen the original (characteristic of the first people) genotype (A1 haplotype) has been preserved, indicating that, possibly, the first representatives of the genus Homo sapiens belonged to this anthropological type. Some features of the Khoisan race have been preserved in a number of other regions of Africa (East Africa, Tunisia, Algeria), which confirms the version of it as an ancient population of the African continent. The total number of representatives of the Khoisan race in the world today does not exceed several hundred thousand people.

, Ya.Ya. Roginsky and M.G. Levin and other anthropologists). Modern research has shown that the genetic differences between these two races are higher than between any of them and any other race, and some external similarity (dark skin, eyes, hair, curly hair, etc.) is explained by adaptation to similar living conditions ...

In foreign literature, the term "Negroid" can be used to refer to the Negro race, which does not include Negrilli (pygmies) and khoisanoids. American anthropologist KS Kuhn used the term "Congoids" in relation to the representatives of the Negroid race.

The Negroid race is distinguished by the following anthropological features:

In different parts of their range, Negroids can differ in body length, skin color, lip thickness, nose width and other features (curly hair remains the same common feature for all), morphologically, negrilli (with very short stature) and koisanoids (with more fair skin, flattened face and epicanthus).

The main area of \u200b\u200bsettlement of representatives of the Negroid race is Tropical Africa south of the Sahara. Also, Negroids make up a significant part of the population of Latin America, the West Indies and the United States - the Negroid population of these countries and regions form the descendants of slaves brought from Africa. The dominant population is representatives of the Negroid race in the countries of Guiana, Jamaica, the Republic of Haiti and in some other island states of the West Indies.

The Negroid race includes the Negro, Central African and South African minor races. Sometimes the South African race, the main representatives of which are the Bushmen and Hottentots, are considered as one of the great human races. Also in traditional classifications (for example, in the classification of V.V. Bunak), the Melanesian race, which is the eastern equatorial (oceanic) branch of the large Negroid race, opposed to the western equatorial (African) branch with the Negro, Central African and South African races, is classified as Negroid.

The Negro race is the main, most common variant of the large Negroid race, both in number and in the area it occupies. Representatives of the negro small race make up the absolute majority in sub-Saharan Africa. The characteristic features of this race are: very dark skin; dark eyes; black curly hair; the nose is very wide, with a flattened nose; the lips are very thick; dolichocephaly; the face is low, strongly projected.

As part of the Negro race, several anthropological types are distinguished:

For each of the anthropological types, with the exception of the Sudanese, it is assumed mixing with neighboring Negroid groups of other types or races: for the Central African type - mixing with representatives of the Negrillic (Central African) race, for the South African type - mixing with the Khoisanoids, for the Nilotic type - mixing with representatives of the Ethiopian race.

The Central African (Pygmy, Negrillic) small race is widespread in the equatorial rain forests of Central Africa among the pygmies (Negrilli). The characteristic features of this race include very short stature; slightly lighter skin color; small face size and very prominent eyes; strong growth of beard, mustache and body hair; an extremely wide and short nose with a flat nose and often a convex back; comparatively thin lips.

Within the Central African race, two types are distinguished: Western (the Bakola, Babinga and Baka peoples in the Republic of the Congo, as well as the Aka people in the Central African Republic) and Eastern (the Mbuti peoples in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Twa in the DRC, Rwanda, Burundi and Uganda ). Researchers do not have a common opinion about their relationship and the time when a consensus was formed. Some anthropologists believe that the craniological differences between Western and Eastern pygmies are stronger than their differences from neighboring Negro groups. In general, the western pygmy groups have larger faces and taller stature than the eastern pygmies.

In Central Africa, there are many populations with intermediate traits between the Central African and Negro races.

The South African (Capoid, Khoisanoid, Bushman) race is a variant of the large Negroid race, common in the arid regions of South Africa. Characteristic features of this race: short stature; rather flat face; small lower jaw, due to which the face takes on a sub-triangular shape; the nose is rather narrow with a very flat nose; developed epicanthus; relatively light yellowish-brown skin; short spirally curled hair; steatopygia in women; very weak beard and mustache growth. Some of the features of koisanoids, primarily the presence of epicanthus, resemble Mongoloid features.

In ancient times, representatives of the South African race occupied more extensive territories, but were pushed south into the listening regions as a result of the migrations of the Bantu peoples belonging to the Negro race. In the course of the settling of the Bantu-speaking groups, it is possible that the formation of two types of Khoisanoids took place - the Bushman and the Hottentot. The latter type is distinguished by its greater massiveness and higher growth. It is assumed that the differences between the characters of the Hottentot type and the Bushman type were formed as a result of mixing the Hottentots with representatives of the Negro race; in addition, the Hottentots probably borrowed cattle breeding from the Bantu peoples, due to which the ancient collectors changed their lifestyle and type of food, which also affected their appearance.

Reliable finds, revealing a relationship with the South African race, also most likely date back to the Holocene. Perhaps the formation of this type was influenced by the isolation conditions during the glacial maximum between 25 and 16 thousand years ago, when most of the territory in southern Africa became arid and uninhabitable and cut off the northern African populations from the southern ones. The significant genetic difference between the Bushmen and Hottentots was a consequence of the more active processes of gene drift that took place in the khoisanoids due to the small number of their populations, in contrast to, for example, the Australian aborigines, who lived in isolation for a much longer time, but had less genetic differences. There is an assumption that the isolation of the Bushmen and Hottentots lasted for a much longer period of time (about 75-60 thousand years).

Several hypotheses have been put forward regarding the origin of the Central African race. According to one of them, the pygmies are of ancient origin (formed more than 40 thousand years ago), also a fairly early division according to this hypothesis occurred among the pygmies into western and eastern groups (about 18 thousand years ago), while the western pygmies were mixed with those who came from the north negroids are denied. According to another hypothesis, which also supports the ancient origin of the pygmies, it is believed that the division into western and eastern groups occurred much later - from 5 to 3 thousand years ago. According to another hypothesis, it is assumed that the pygmies are populations that separated from farmers about 4-5 thousand years ago and switched to gathering a second time, while the western groups arose almost at the same time as a result of the migration of eastern groups to the west and their subsequent crossbreeding. with groups of the Negro race. Some researchers put forward a version of the independent origin of the western and eastern groups of pygmies, which makes it possible, in their opinion, to distinguish not one, but two races of negrilli.

Genetic research provides a special view of the origin of the Negroid races. Thus, it has been established that African populations are opposed to all other human groups combined. At the same time, Negroids do not form a unity, they are several early isolated human lines. All non-African groups of mankind - Caucasians, Australoids and Mongoloids - became the descendants of one of these lineages. Other African lineages, in particular the khoisanoids and pygmies, are opposed not only to all other Negroid lineages, but also to all other human groups on other continents combined.

Negroids

Negroid race - one of the great races of people.

The term "Negroid race" is often used to refer to all people with black or chocolate skin color. Some researchers [ who?] refer the Negroid race to the Equatorial (Negro-Australoid) race. A number of authors name representatives of the Negroid race congoids in order to distinguish them from representatives of other dark pigmented African races: capoids, pygmies and Ethiopians. Antiracist Elizabeth Martinez suggested moving the term congoid to all representatives of the Negroid race, following the example of naming other races by geographic location. However, this word quickly became offensive, despite the fact that the purpose was different.

Characteristic signs

Characterized by: different heights, elongated limbs (especially arms), dark skin, curly hair, wide flat nose, thick lips, prognathism. Distributed in Africa, sub-Saharan Africa.

Origin

They appeared around the V millennium BC. e. in the territories of southern Sahara, and from there they settled in central and southern Africa, displacing the pygmies and Bushmen.

Spread

Black soldier of the Brazilian army.

Distributed in Africa, sub-Saharan Africa. Also common in Brazil, the West Indies and the USA. They are also common in Russia - according to the Metis Foundation, over the years of the Soviet Union's assistance to developing countries, about 70 thousand blacks remained in it. According to the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, about 40 thousand children were born from Negro-Russian marriages.

About blacks and racism

In his book, The History of Man, Professor Carlton S. Kuhn (eng. Carleton S. Coon) (former president of the American Association of Anthropologists) wrote that the weight of a black midbrain is 1249 grams compared to 1380 grams of a white midbrain, and that the average brain volume of a black person is 1316 cc. see, and the white man - 1481 cubic meters. see He also found that the size and weight of the brain is greatest in white people.

Dr. Kuhn wrote that there is a big difference between the brain of a Negro and a White. The front lobe of the Negro's brain is less developed than that of the white. Thus, their abilities in thinking, planning, communication and behavior are more limited than that of whites. Professor Kuhn also found that this part of the brain in blacks is thinner and has fewer convolutions on the surface than in white people, and the development of this area of \u200b\u200bthe brain in them stops at an earlier age than in whites, thereby limiting further intellectual development.

Dr. Kuhn is not alone in his conclusions. The following researchers in the years listed, using various experiments, showed the difference between blacks and whites ranging from 2.6% to 7.9% in favor of whites: Todd (1923), Pearl (1934), Simmons (1942) and Connolly (1950) ... In 1980, Kang-cheng Ho and his assistants, while working at the Case Western Institute of Pathology, determined that the brains of white men are 8.2% more than those of black men, while the brains of white women are 8.1% more than those of black women.

“From time immemorial, Negroes owned the African continent - wealth beyond the bounds of poetic fantasies, lands crunchy from diamonds under their feet. But they never raised a single diamond from the dust until the white man showed them its shining light. Powerful and obedient animals crowded their lands, but they did not even think of harnessing a cart or sled. Hunters by necessity, they never made an ax, spear, or arrowhead to save them after the moment of use. They lived like a herd of bulls, happy to nibble grass for an hour. On a land full of stone and wood, they did not bother to saw boards, chisel a single brick, or build a house not of sticks and clay. “And here is the evidence of the brain and twisted in it. A banana fell, ate it and ok!

The color of the skin, which is also recognized by the velvety of the skin and a special smell, does not exist due to the presence of any special pigment, but a large amount of dye in the Malpighian mucosa between the inner and outer layers of the skin. Excessive pigmentation is not limited only to the skin, pigment spots are often found in internal organs such as the liver, spleen, etc. Other features found are modified excretory organs, a more pronounced venous system and a smaller brain volume compared to the Caucasian race.

Undoubtedly, according to the above-mentioned characteristics, the Negro should be attributed to the lower stage of evolutionary development than the white, and closer in the degree of kinship with the higher anthropoids (monkeys). These characteristics are: the length of the arms, the shape of the jaw, a heavy massive skull with large superciliary arches, a flat nose, depressed at the base, etc. Mentally the Negro is inferior to the White "

Physiologists and anthropologists have stated [ who?] that the lag of blacks in IQ may be due to their general evolutionary lag - whites are simply ahead of blacks in development by several thousand years. Therefore, whites have an average of 100 g more brain than blacks. In addition, the development of the brain in a black child does not go the same way as in a white one - at first, black children develop faster in motor and mental activity than whites, but from the age of five black children lag behind: the development of the frontal lobes, which are responsible for logic and abstract thinking, comes to an end. at an earlier age than whites. Moreover, these black frontal lobes are less developed and have fewer convolutions than that of whites. (In young apes, the development of the frontal lobes and motor activity is even faster than in blacks, but it ends much earlier.) That is why, the researchers said [ who?], the Negroes never created civilization, there were no Kants and Beethovens, Columbus and Archimedes among them. It's just that once the evolutionary branches of humanity parted, no one is to blame ...

Naturally, other interspecies differences have accumulated as well. In particular, in an interview with The Independent and The Sunday Times in the fall of 2007, Nobel laureate DNA discoverer James Watson voiced the conclusions of scientists about significant differences in the gene structures of people with different skin colors, indicating, in particular, about differences in the intellectual abilities of Negroids and Caucasians. The genetic scientist said that in the next decade, genes could be discovered that are responsible for differences in the level of human intelligence.

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Negroid race (Negroids) - is understood either as a synonym for the great equatorial race, or as the equatorial race within the African continent, or as a synonym for the small negro race. The inclusion of the Negril and Khoisanoid races and the equatorial races depends on this ... ... Physical Anthropology. Illustrated explanatory dictionary.

Negroids Grimaldi is a population of people of the species Homo sapiens, whose representatives possessed Negroid features and inhabited the territory of Europe in the Upper Paleolithic before the arrival of the Cro-Magnons. They were carriers of the Aurignacian culture. The beginning of the description of the race ... Wikipedia

In the modern world, there are 3 races: Mongoloid, Negroid and Caucasoid. They differ among themselves in physical characteristics: facial features, skin color, eye shape, shape and color of hair.

The Negroid race is divided into 2 branches - Australian and African. This article will talk about what the Negroid race is, what peoples belong to it, distinctive features and mixed types of races.

What are races

In common parlance, races are groups of people that differ in physical characteristics.

Do you know that many anthropologists believe that Georgians are the most beautiful representatives of Caucasians? Well, of course, each of us knows that people of different races fall in love with each other and as a result of such a marriage, children with a mixed race are born. For example, the mixing of Negroid and Caucasian races leads to the fact that children are born, whom we call mulattos. And if a baby is born in a Negroid and Mongoloid marriage, then he is called Sambo. Children from such mixed marriages all over the world are recognized as the most beautiful. These babies are called mestizo. As a rule, they have the correct facial features, a beautiful body, healthy teeth and hair, and most importantly, excellent physical condition.

Australoids

As mentioned at the beginning of the article, the Negroid race is divided into 2 groups - Negroids and Australoids. We will consider the negroids a little later. Here we will talk about the Australoids.

Representatives of this type are residents of Australia. Signs of this type of Negroid race: dark skin and hair color, large teeth, wavy or curly hair, short neck, high growth. Sometimes Austroloids are considered a separate race, but many still associate them with Negroids.

Today the Australian race is divided into the following types: Australian, Vedoid, Andaman, Ainu, Polynesian. There was another type, but, unfortunately, it ceased to exist in the 19th century. Another type that is now threatened with extinction is the Ainu type.

It follows that representatives of the Negroid race live not only in Africa.

The Australoid race is only 0.3% of the total population of the world. These include tribes - Negritos, Ainu and Vedam.

Types of the Negroid race

Everyone knows that the main part of Africa is inhabited by the Negroid race. But few people know that among themselves its representatives differ in skin color (darker or slightly lighter), growth and thickness of lips. Modern anthropologists have attributed the inhabitants of Egypt and Libya to the Caucasian race. The fact is that most of the inhabitants of North Africa have fair skin, blue, sometimes gray eyes, and some representatives have light brown hair. You can also meet a blond Libyan walking down the street.

All races of people, including Negroid, are also subdivided into subtypes: Sudanese (representatives of this type are classic Negroids), East, South and North African, Ethiopian.

Eddie Murphy, Mike Tyson, Wesley Snipes - these celebrities are representatives of the classic type of Negroids.

When people are asked what they know about the signs of the Negroid race, everyone unanimously repeats - dark skin pigment. The second most popular answer is plump lips. Why did nature reward them with lips, which many women aspire to?

The appearance of a representative of any race is adapted to the climatic conditions of the area where he lives. The Negroid race originally formed in Africa, Oceania, South Asia and Australia. And it is their appearance that clearly shows us how they have adapted to the climate of their habitat over the centuries.

1. Coarse and curly hair, more like a hat, protects it from solar radiation.

2. Dark skin color is a sign that they have a high melanin content. It is he who saves them from ultraviolet radiation.

3. Wide nostrils are needed so that they have good heat transfer during breathing.

4. And finally, lips. The thicker the lips, the larger the size of the mucous membrane. It is through it that excess moisture evaporates.

In the world, 16.6% of the population belongs to the Negroid race. These include the population of Africa, Central America, Brazil, tribes - pygmies, Bushmen and Hottentots.

Negroid race. Photos of representatives

This talented and famous representative of the Negroid race is known all over the world.

Here is such an interesting Negroid race! Photos of the following representatives show how beautiful children are born from mixing blood with representatives of other races.

Albino Negroids

Who are albinos? These are people in whom the body, for various reasons, cannot produce melanin, which is responsible for skin pigmentation. Such people can never tan, only redness arises. Often, under the influence of ultraviolet radiation, they develop serious diseases. Albinos also live in Africa, but, unfortunately, due to climatic conditions in their third decade of life, they are diagnosed with cancer.

Many albino Negroids do not know why they were born that way. The fact is that in African countries it is considered bad manners to learn about it. And often such questions are considered a great disrespect to parents. Therefore, such topics are prohibited here. For religious reasons, albinism is considered predestination, which means that it was God's will. More albino children are not supposed to know and just need to live with it.

No matter how forbidden this topic is, African people have found an original answer. Some of them believe that during the conception of the child the woman had menstruation, or the love joys were in the full moon phase and the most original explanation: "Conception took place in broad daylight!"

When journalists asked this question to an African albino, the child replied that he is not part of the human world, he belongs to the world of spirits.

Whatever the cause of albinism in the Negroid race, such people will always face various kinds of prejudices. They are not always negative. Many shamans believe that in the blood and hair of such unusual children there are substances that attract good luck and wealth. There is an opinion that albinos are very smart. But most African people believe that such people attract unhappiness. Well, everyone will adhere to their opinion. As the people say: "How many people, so many opinions."