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Caucasiod:they display extremely variable skin color from the lightest color to dark brown.head hair are thick. Nose is extremely variable but tend to narrow and projecting. The cephalic index runs from one extreme to the other stature is from tall to short. They refer as the the white race.

Mongoloid: skin color is yellowish to light brown on the average. Hair usually varies brown commonly straight and usually black. Lips are are variable but are on the average of thickness, cheek bones project forward and laterally. Heavy fat padding appears to be a consequence of selection of survival in a very cold winters.

The African Negroid: they inhabit in south Sahara extending as far as the cape of Good Hope Africa. Their skin varies from yellowish brown or dark brown almost black. Hair is curly woolly or frizzly and they have a little body hair. Nose are variable in width although ofen wide. Ears are usually small, lips are thick

Melanesian RaceĀ 

They live many south pacific island termed Melanesia, stretching across 3000 miles of ocean from New Guinea to Fiji. They generally characterized by deeply pigmented skin eyes, tigh, curled hair.

Micronesian Polynessian found in the island of Melanesia and Polynesia in the triangle of of islands east of Melanesia from Hawaii to New Zealand. The body hair is slight. Their skin is light and hair varies from straight to frizzy but is typically wavy.

The Congo or Central African Pygmies. Genetically Negroid.average stature is less than five feet. They are not dark as African Negroid and Melanesians, and they have more body hair than these two races.

The Far Eastern Pygmies. Found in the Adaman islands, Luzon and Mindanao in the Philippines, Malay peninsula and various Indonesians Islands. Their lips are fairly thick; their head hair is woolly;their skin is very dark; body hair is slight, average height is 5 feet.

Australoids . Hair is nearly straight to frizzly but is typically heavy. Have much body hair ,their...