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Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May – 22 January ) was a Germanphysician, naturalist, physiologist and anthropologist. He was one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history. He used comparative anatomy to classify human races, of which he listed five.

Blumenbach's classification of races

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Blumenbach divided the human species into five races in Later he based them on the anatomy of the human skull.

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Blumenbach's work included the description of sixty skulls published as Decas craniorum (Göttingen –). This was a founding work for other scientists.

He called the five races (/):

He did not think other races were inferior to the Caucasian race, and were potentially good members of society.

Anatomical study led him to the conclusion that 'individual Africans differ as much, or even more, from other individual Africans as Europeans differ from Europeans'.

Furthermore he thought that Afri