additionally included American Indians under the term.[11] Arthur de Gobineau defined the extent of the Mongolian race, "by the yellow the Altaic, Mongol, Finnish and Tartar branches".[12][13] Later, Thomas Huxley used the term Mongoloid and included American Indians as well as Arctic Native Americans.[14] Other nomenclatures were proposed, such as Mesochroi (middle color),[15] but Mongoloid was widely adopted.
In 1940, anthropologist Franz Boas included the American race as part of the Mongoloid…
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