The Mongoloid race

The Mongoloid race is a race of indigenous inhabitants of northern and eastern Asia, as well as areas of the Far North.

It is quite numerous: the number of people who belong to it is about 20% of the total population of the Earth.

Mongoloid race: signs

Representatives of this race have straight, stiff dark hair, a yellowish skin tone, brown eyes, prominent cheekbones, a narrow or medium-sized nose with a low nose, moderately thick lips, and a typical skin fold of the upper eyelid that covers the lacrimal tubercle in the inner corner of the eyes. This fold is called epicanthus. Characteristic of the Mongoloids is the poor development of the hairline.

The Mongoloid race is closely related to American Indians in many features and origins , where epicanthus rarely occurs, the nose is stronger, and the general characteristics of the Mongoloid appearance are often smoothed. In Asia, it is customary to subdivide the Mongoloid race into two main groups-the Pacific and the continental: the second differs from the first by a darker skin, a very large face, orthognathism, and rather thin lips.

Representatives of

Bright representatives of the Mongoloid race are the Mongols who enslaved most of Eurasia in the 13th century. Classical Mongoloids (northern Mongoloid race) are also Kalmyks, Tuvinians, Buryats, Yakuts. Among the Mongoloids are Siberian Tatars, which are mixed with the so-called West Siberian race. The inhabitants of southern China, the Japanese, Koreans belong to the southern Mongoloid race, which has signs of mixing with the Australols. The population of Southeast Asia and Indochina this impurity is noticeable even more.

History

All specialists in anthropology no longer question the proximity of the Americanoid and Mongoloid races. Mongoloid-Asians and American-Indian-Indians have much in common. This is manifested not only in appearance, but also in genetic traits (MT-DNA and Y-chromosomes are the same for them). There is also a similarity of beliefs (the cult of a crow, or the cult of an eagle).

Some studies also state that the modern Mongoloid race is younger than the Americanoid race. Specific Mongoloids (Central Asian type), individual scientists refer to the group of the youngest races. The question of the origin of the eastern trunk as a whole (the ancestors of the Indians and Mongoloids) is quite complex. It is believed that a typical Mongoloid race was formed in Central Asia in a severe climate. There are many variants of its origin, scientists must find the truth.

Incipient Mongoloidity in the Neolithic Age appeared in Europe (Bavaria). The Mongoloid race is characterized by shovel-shaped incisors, and they were found in the Sinanthropus, who lived 420,000 years ago.

Areas of contact with other races

These are such zones as the territory of Central Asia, Siberia, and Kazakhstan. Initially, the Great Steppe was inhabited by Iranian-speaking representatives of the Europoid race (Scythians), but from around the 5th century the Mongoloids settled here.

In South-East Asia originally lived Australoids, but later on this territory penetrated the Mongoloids.

The Mongoloid race is divided into several subraces - North Asian, South Asian, Arctic, Far Eastern, American.

In addition to three (four, according to another classification) large human races with sub-races, there are still small races, special, but their origin is not clearly established. Presumably, they could have been formed from ancient, slightly differentiated populations on the border of climatic zones (small races - transitional), with contacts of populations of different races (small races - mixed), or as a result of distant migrations to unusual living conditions, when it was necessary to adapt to them and To develop other signs or revive those that were (metamorphic sub-races).