Are Native Americans Mongoloid and do they have an Epicanthic Fold?

[Wayfarer]

?

[Siegfried]

I think so, yes, though the epicanthic fold may not be as extreme as in certain East-Asians.

[aftermundo]

Basically there are 3 races in the world :

Mongoloid : east-asians and native-americans

Caucasians : europeans, north-africans and middle-easterners

Negroid : subsaharan Africans

perhaps we should put the aboriginals in the Negroid group, but im not sure.

[Siegfried]

Basically there are 3 races in the world :

Mongoloid : east-asians and native-americans

Caucasians : europeans, north-africans and middle-easterners

Negroid : subsaharan Africans

perhaps we should put the aboriginals in the Negroid group, but im not sure.

I don't think aboriginals should be put with negroes; the three-race-model is too broad, I think. I like the five-way-model a bit better; Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid, Capoid, Australoid.
In either case, Amerindians belong in the Mongoloid group.

[aftermundo]

Yep, the siberian origin of native-american is obvious. Native-americans even cluster with east-asians when it comes to dna from what ive read.

[Nordhammer]

Are Native Americans Mongoloid and do they have an Epicanthic Fold?

Yes and yes.

[Skeptic]

Aren't Australoids genetically closer to Asians than Negroes?

[pearl]

Aren't Australoids genetically closer to Asians than Negroes?

I wouldn't be able to answer this question with any scientific backing...but if, genetically, they are closer to asians then their dark pigmentation is only an evolutionary attribute for survival in the desert-like climate of Australia. Most people would consider Australoids (aboriginals) to be negroes, soley based on their outward skin appearance...black skin=negro...but I have read somewhere that they do not properly fit in the "negro" category. I can't remember where I read that though

[Siegfried]

I wouldn't be able to answer this question with any scientific backing...but if, genetically, they are closer to asians then their dark pigmentation is only an evolutionary attribute for survival in the desert-like climate of Australia. Most people would consider Australoids (aboriginals) to be negroes, soley based on their outward skin appearance...black skin=negro...but I have read somewhere that they do not properly fit in the "negro" category. I can't remember where I read that though

The dark peoples of the earth roughly fall into three categories.

Negroid:


Capoid:


Australoid:

[Awar]

Australoids are genetically close to east-asians.
Even dravidians are related to Mongoloids.