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EUROPOID [2 records]

Record 1 2008-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
CONT

Alexeev used to single out only three Great Races :Europoid or in the more obsolete terminology "white", Mongloid or "yellow"(in fact ranging from very white in the northern Siberian Evens to dark brown in some Indonesian populations) and Equatorial where he would lump Black Africans, Negritos of Andamans and other Southeast Asian islands i. e. Papuans, Australians etc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
DEF

Type qui présente les caractères de la race blanche.

Spanish

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Record 2 2008-05-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Anthropology
OBS

it has been customary ... to classify the human race into three ... groups ... that is the Mongoloid, Caucasoid or White, and Negroid.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Anthropologie
DEF

appellation utilisée assez couramment dans l'anthropologie physique à la place de «race blanche» ou de «race européenne».

Spanish

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