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basis of skin color. He used skin color to claim that Caucasians were the original and more superior people on the earth.
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist, and anthropologist. He was one of the first to explore the study of mankind as an aspect of natural history. His teachings in comparative anatomy were applied to the classification of what he called human races, of which he determined there to be five.
Blumenbach's work included his description of sixty human crania (skulls) published originally in fascicules as Decas craniorum (Göttingen, 1790–1828). This was a founding work for other scientists in the field of craniometry. He divided the human species into five races in 1779, later founded on crania research (description of human skulls), and called them (1793/1795):
the Caucasian or white race the Mongolian or yellow race, including all East Asians and some Central Asians. the Malayan or brown race, including Southeast Asian and Pacific Islanders. the Ethiopian or black race, including sub-Saharan Africans. the American or red race, including American Indians.
. . . "Romans 10 : 9 says, "If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved."
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