Blumenmacher, a professor at the University of G?ttingen in Germany, known as the "originator of Western anthropology" and the "father of mankind", was the first to use scientific methods to classify people. Color, hair style, eye color, height, head shape and other physical characteristics, as well as original settlements, classify living humans into five major races:
①Caucasian race (white race). The skin is white, the hair is chestnut, the head is almost spherical, the face is oval and vertical, and the nose is narrow and narrow. The mouth belongs to the residents of Europe, West Asia and North Africa, except for Finns, Laplanders, etc.
②Mongoloid race (yellow race). The skin is yellow, the hair is black and straight, the head is almost square, the face is flat, the nose is small, the cheekbones are raised, and the eye slits are narrow. Asians outside western Asia and the Inuit, Laplanders and Finns in the north belong to this group, but do not include the Malays.
③African race (black race). The skin is black, the hair is black and curved, the head is long and narrow, the cheekbones are protruding, the eyeballs are protruding, the nose is large, the lips are swollen, and most people have splayed feet. All Africans except northern Africans.
④American race (red race). His skin is copper-colored, his hair is black and straight, his eyes are sunken, his nose is high and wide, and his cheekbones are prominent. In addition to the Inuit, other indigenous residents of the Americas belong to this group.
⑤Malay race (brown race). The skin is tawny, the hair is black and shrinking, the head is medium and narrow, the nose is broad, and the mouth is large. The inhabitants of the Pacific Islands and the Malay Peninsula belong to this category. This division can be said to be the geographical classification of races. In fact, red people in America do not exist. Indians are a large branch of the yellow race. Because they worship the color red and often paint their faces with red paint, they are mistaken for red people. Furthermore, different human races have different blood characteristics, genetic diseases, and inherited genes. Therefore, scholars use different standards to classify human races. Therefore, there is still no consensus on the classification of modern human races. However, after the 1950s, fingerprints, blood types and other indicators were added to the Brucella classification, which gradually combined the classification of races with modern science and gradually formed the currently recognized standards for classification of races.