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race-1997-38		race-1997-38	1997		.txt	text/plain	1931	67	50	In short, Linnaeus s primary ordering principle is cartographic; if he had wished to push hierarchy as the essential picture of human variety, he would surely have listed Europeans first and Africans last, but he started with native Americans instead. Blumenbach s final taxonomy of 1795 divided all humans into five groups, defined both by geography and appearance in his order, die Caucasian variety, for the light-skinned people of Europe and adjacent parts of Asia and Africa; the Mongolian variety, for most other inhabitants of Asia, including China and Japan; the Ethiopian variety, for the dark-skinned people of Africa; the American variety, for most native populations of the New World; and the Malay variety, for the Polynesians and Melanesians of the Pacific and for the aborigines of Australia.	cache/race-1997-38.txt	txt/race-1997-38.txt