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  2. While Blumenbach incorporated basic differences in skin pigmentation and hair color in his study, he also relied heavily on facial features, shape of teeth, and skull morphology to identify five human races consisting of Caucasian, Malaysian, Ethiopian, American, and Mongolian.

  3. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He is considered to be a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines. [3] . He has been called the "founder of racial classifications." [4]

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  4. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) was a German naturalist and anthropologist known for manifold scientific achievements during his long and productive career. In 1776, he was appointed professor of medicine and curator of the Museum of Natural History at the Georg-August-University Göttingen. Blumenbach was one of the first to study ...

  5. May 9, 2024 · Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (born May 11, 1752, Gotha, Ger.—died Jan. 22, 1840, Göttingen) was a German anthropologist, physiologist, and comparative anatomist, frequently called the father of physical anthropology, who proposed one of the earliest classifications of the races of mankind.

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  6. Aug 2, 2016 · Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a German scientist, coined the term Caucasian in 1795 “to describe the variety of mankind that originated on the southern slopes of Mount Caucasus” along Europe’s eastern border. He claimed it was the “original” race and therefore the most “beautiful.” 1

  7. Expanding on the work of Carolus Linnaeus, German professor of medicine Johann Friedrich Blumenbach introduced one of the race-based classifications in On the Natural Variety of Mankind. In the second edition Blumenbach changed his original geographically based four-race arrangement to a five-group one that emphasized physical morphology (the ...

  8. May 11, 2022 · He was one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history. Frequently called the father of physical anthropology, Blumenbach proposed one of the earliest classifications of the races of mankind. He divided humanity into five races: Caucasian, Ethiopian, American, Mongolian, and Malay.

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