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4 unusual facts about Joseph Deniker


Androgenic hair

Anthropologist Joseph Deniker said that the very hairy peoples are the Ainus, Iranians, Australian aborigines, Toda, Dravidians and Melanesians while Deniker said the American Indian, San, Mongol and Malay people are glabrous (not hairy).

Joseph Deniker

Deniker had an extensive debate with another racial cartographer, William Z. Ripley, over the nature of race and the number of races.

Ashley Montagu, "The Concept of Race," American Anthropologist 64:5 (October 1962): 919-928.

William Z. Ripley

Ripley's tripartite system of race put him at odds both with others on the topic of human difference, including those who insisted that there was only one European race, and those who insisted that there were dozens of European races (such as Joseph Deniker, who Ripley saw as his chief rival).



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