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Encyclopedia > Xanthochroi race

The anthropologist Thomas Huxley in On the Methods and Results of Ethnology (1865) defined the Xanthochroi race to be the indigenous peoples Rhine (Germany) to the Yenisei (Central Russia) latitudinally, and from the Ural mountains (Eastern Europe) to the Hindu Kush (nations directly north of India ) longitudinally. He included the peoples: Scandinavians, Germans, Slavonian and Finnish. He also included some of the peoples of Greece, Turks, Kirghis, Mantchous, Ossetes, Siahposh and Rohillas. He described them to have fair skin, yellow or red hair, blue eyes, long or broad heads. Huxley's concept was influential in the development of the theory of the Nordic race. Thomas Huxley Thomas Henry Huxley F.R.S. (May 4, 1825 - June 29, 1895) was a British biologist, known as Darwins Bulldog for his defence of Charles Darwins theory of evolution. ... The Hindu Kush or Hindukush (هندوکش in Persian) is a mountain range in Afghanistan as well as in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. ... Scandinavian can mean: a resident of, or anything relating to Scandinavia any North Germanic language a chess opening, Scandinavian Defense the aviation corpotation Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Slav, Slavic or Slavonic can refer to: Slavic peoples Slavic languages Slavic mythology Church Slavonic language Old Church Slavonic language Slavonian can also refer to Slavonia, a region in eastern Croatia. ... ... ... Rohillas were Afghan highlanders (Roh means mountains and Rohilla literally means mountaineer) who belonged to yousafzai tribe of afghans were awarded the Katehr region of north india by aurangzaib alamgir to suppress rajput uprisings . ... Nordic theory (or Nordicism) was a theory of race prevalent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. ...

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Alpine race Indo-Aryan race Dinaric race Armenoid race Mongolian race Racial Types A and B Anthropomorpha race
Aryan race Malayan race Capoid race Semitic race Lapps race Esquimaux race Insensible race
Australoid race Mediterranean race Irano-Afghan race Baltic race Eastern Eurasian race Xanthochroi race Wood Eater race
Caucasoid race Mongoloid race Nordish race Noric race Jakuns race Melanochroi race
Congoid race Negrito race Nordic race Untermensch races Southern Mongoloid race Monstrosous race
Dravidian race Negroid race Ethiopian race Extra-European Caucasoid race Northern Mongoloid race Feral Race


 

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