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Mongoloid Race

(Asiatic-American race), one of the large races of mankind. The members of this race have coarse straight (sometimes wavy) black hair, dark eyes, swarthy, often yellowish skin, a scanty tertiary hair cover, prominent cheek-bones, a somewhat flat face, generally a low nose bridge, and an epicanthus and strongly developed fold of the upper eyelid. The Mongoloid race is found in Asia and America (Indians). It is subdivided into several smaller races: North Asiatic, Arctic, South Asiatic, Far East, and American.

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However this percentage is higher than studies conducted on Chinese and Taiwanian newborns (mongoloid race) by Tsai and I Hsin et al.

FREQUENCY OF PIGMENTED BIRTHMARKS IN NEWBORNS OF VARIOUS ETHNIC GROUPS OF PAKISTAN

On the basis of the analysis of the results we have made the following conclusion: a centuries-old layering of the Mongoloid component on the Old Kazakhstanian anthropological layer of Proto-European race took place on the territory of Kazakhstan; anthropological type of the Kazakhs taking into account the main differentiating features of Caucasoid and Mongoloid race occupies an intermediate position and refers to a mixed South Siberian race.

The analysis of the genetic structure of the Kazakh population as estimated from mitochondrial DNA polymorphism

Freedman went on to explain that the Eastern European Jews who form 92 per cent of the world's population of so-called Jews were originally Khazars, a Mongoloid race forced out of Asia into Eastern Europe.

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