All human beings of the world are Homo sapiens, i.e., they belong to only our species . But this species has been divided into the following races. A race is a stock of individuals which have common ancestry and physical features such as of lips, nose, etc. The word’ people’ refers to an assemblage of individuals in a given area. The following features are taken into consideration for the classification of human races. (1) Hair form (2) skin color (3) form of head (4) fatal features (5) average height.

The human races and their characteristics are:

(i) Negroid: Hair wooly, skin dark to chocolate

(ii) Mogoloid: Hair usually straight, sparse hair on face, skin yellowish to brown

(iii) Caucasoid: Hair smooth to wavy; skin dark brown, reddish brown pinkish white, tawny white, body hairy; head generally long