WHAT FOR?

- distinguishes one population from another

-the most widely used human racial categories are beased on visible traits sucha s skin colour and facial features.

-the term RACE is used in phyiscal anthropology to denote a division of humankind possessing traits that are transmissible by descent and sufficient to characterize it as a distinct human type.

1- caucasoid

2- mongoloid

3- negroid

location-europe,north Africa,middle east,north india

skin colour-pale reddish white to olive brown

eye-light blue to dark brown

hair-light blonde to dark browm

nose shape-high nose bridge

location-east asia

skin colour- saffron to yellow or reddish brown

eye- black to dark brown

hair-dark,straight and coarse

nose shape- low or medium nose bridge

location- Africa,sahara,pygmy groups of Indonesia,new guinea and Melanesia

skin colour- brown to brown-black

eye- dark colours

hair- dark,coarse, usually kinky

nose shape- low nose bridge and broad nostril

pheomelanin-red to yellow

eumelanin- brown to dark brown