A brief overview of human races and their geographical distribution, with illustrative plates from Carleton S. Coon's The Origin of Races.
Caucasoid: Europe, West Asia and North Africa.
(Pakistan)
Mongoloid: East Asia, Oceania, the Arctic and the Americas.
(Taiwan)
Negroid: Sub-Saharan Africa.
(Sudan)
Capoid: Southern Africa.
(Kalahari Desert)
Australoid: Australia and Melanesia.
(Melville Island)
Related Topics
Biological Race: The scientific basis for race.
Caucasoid Subraces: Subdivisions of the White race.
Hispanics: Not a race but an ethnicity composed of the three primary human races.
Ethiopians: Racially intermediate between Caucasoids and Negroids.
East Indians: A hybrid of proto-Mongoloids, Caucasoids and Australoids.
Race and Ethnicity Gallery: Photo series of Caucasoid, Mongoloid and Negroid peoples.