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Caucasien (anthropologie)
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Race and genetics
Researchers have investigated the relationship between race and genetics as part of efforts to understand how biology may or may not contribute to human racial categorization. Many constructions of race are associated with phenotypical traits and geographic ancestry, and scholars like Carl Linnaeus have proposed scientific models for the organization of race since at least the 18th century. Following the discovery of Mendelian genetics and the mapping of the human genome, questions about the biology of race have often been framed in terms of genetics.
Race alpine
vignette|Type alpin, italien du Piémont par William Z. Ripley, The Races of Europe (1899) La « race alpine »(Homo alpinus) était l'une des trois « sous-races » dans laquelle la « race caucasienne » a été classée par la plupart des anthropologues entre la fin du et le milieu du . La « race alpine » était alors identifiée comme la descendante des Celtes résidant en Europe centrale au Néolithique. L'anthropologue américain Carleton S. Coon a déclaré qu'il s'agissait du type « racial » le plus courant en France.
Histoire du terme « nègre »
vignette|Plan, profil et distribution du navire négrier La de Nantes, armé par Mr Gruel, pour Angole, sous le commandement de Gaugy, qui a traité à Loangue, dont la vue est cy-dessous la quantité de 307 captifs (...) vignette|Maquette de l'Aurore, navire négrier construit en 1784 à Rochefort, d’une capacité de 280 tonneaux et 650 captifs, plus 45 membres d’équipage. Musée national des douanes, Bordeaux.
Nez aquilin
An aquiline nose (also called a Roman nose) is a human nose with a prominent bridge, giving it the appearance of being curved or slightly bent. The word aquiline comes from the Latin word aquilinus ("eagle-like"), an allusion to the curved beak of an eagle. While some have ascribed the aquiline nose to specific ethnic, racial, or geographic groups, and in some cases associated it with other supposed non-physical characteristics (i.e. intelligence, status, personality, etc.
Japhétites
thumb|Carte en T stylisée représentant l'Afrique comme le foyer des descendants de Cham, l'Asie celui des descendants de Sem, et l'Europe celui des descendants de Japhet (Guntherus Ziner, 1472). Les Japhétites seraient, selon la Table des peuples, les descendants de Japhet, l'un des trois fils de Noé. Ils constitueraient donc une lignée parallèle aux Sémites (descendants de Sem) et aux Hamites (descendants de Cham).
Typology (anthropology)
Typology in anthropology was the categorization of the human species by races, based solely on traits that are readily observable from a distance such as head shape, skin color, hair form, body build, and stature. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, anthropologists used a typological model to divide people from different ethnic regions into races, (e.g. the Negroid race, the Caucasoid race, the Mongoloid race, the Australoid race, and the Capoid race which was the racial classification system as defined in 1962 by Carleton S.
History of anthropometry
The history of anthropometry includes its use as an early tool of anthropology, use for identification, use for the purposes of understanding human physical variation in paleoanthropology and in various attempts to correlate physical with racial and psychological traits. At various points in history, certain anthropometrics have been cited by advocates of discrimination and eugenics often as part of novel social movements or based upon pseudoscience.