Re: When did humans divide into separate races?



These seem to be sub-sets of the third "major geographic race",
known first as "Mongoloid" (because the geographic limits of the
Mongol Empire seemed to coninide with the geographical limits of
a human "race", as seen from a small window in a small house in
a small town in a small principality in the middle of Europe) and
later as "mongloid" or "mongoloid", with an expansion to include
areas which were never within the Mongol Empire, but excluding
the areas which do not include people who would be easily
described as "mongoloid", and including people who have also
been described as being "caucasoid' and people who have also
been described as being "negroid", but excluding people in
North and South America, who have been described variously as
"mongoloid, "caucasoid", "ameroid", "negroid", and "anthropoid".


Here's what I found on wikipedia:

" According to The Human Species (2003) and Physical Anthropology,
humanity can be divided into two major braches: the African branch and
the non-African branch. The non-African branch includes two subgroups,
one Eurasian and the other Oceanic. The Eurasian and Oceanic branches
are the products of this common origin. The Eurasian branch split into
the Caucasoid and Mongoloid branches. The Mongoloid branch then divided
into the East Asian subgroup and the Amerindian subgroup. The Oceanic
branch divided into the Southeast Asian subgroup and the Pacific
Islander subgroup. According to The Human Species (2003), East Asians
generally are more genetically similar to the South Asians than to
Southeast Asians, because the Far East and the Indian Subcontinent are
members of the Eurasian branch while Southeast Asians (including
southern Chinese) are members or the Oceanic branch"

Now I'm wondering if this information is still generally accepted by
experts, and I'm wondering when each of these splits occured. When did
Africans split from non-Africans? I've heard everything from 50,000 to
150,000 years ago. When did the Eurasian branch split into mongoloids
and caucasoids?

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