RACES OF MAN


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.