Re: What Aborigines are considered negroid for racial classification?

REPEAT:  2-19-01:

Dear Kathy:
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Thank you for the question.  The vast majority of contemporary biologists 
do not believe that the term 'race' can be applied to humans.  All modern 
humans (Homo Sapiens) are considered to be of the same race.  Modern 
biologists and biological anthropologists prefer to speak in terms of 
'clines.'  Clines can be defined as gradual trends in the variance of a 
physical trait (s) across geographical space.  For example, dark skin color 
gradually becomes lighter as there is an increase to higher and colder 
latitudes.  This, and most other such variation in traits, is due to 
natural selection over time.  The terms 'Negroid' and 'Mongoloid' and so on 
are no longer used by many scientists. For further information, please see 
recent textbooks of physical anthropology.

Dr. Smerken