The Phenotypes of the Human Race

 Background The White Race Past Classification Schemes Joseph Deniker (1899) The Races of Man           The Russian-born French anthropologist Joseph Deniker initially proposed "nordique" (meaning simply "northern") as an "ethnic group" (a term that he coined). He defined nordique by a set of physical characteristics: the concurrence of somewhat wavy hair, light eyes, reddish skin, tall stature and a dolichocephalic skull. In his 1899 Races de l'Europe , Deniker held there were six primary European races (besides four secondary or subsidiary races): Nordic, Littoral or Atlanto-Mediterranean, Oriental or Eastern, Adriatic or Dinaric, Ibero-Insular, and Occidental. The four intermediate races were all for the Nordic race: Northwestern, Sub-Nordic, Vistula, and Sub-Adriatic. I. Assyroid race 1. Assyroid race : not found pure in any population, but it counts a sufficient number of representatives to give a character to entire populations, such as the Hadje...