Classification paragraph. Olha Vynohradova

Remains of the earliest Homo sapiens were found in 1868 in France in the cave Cro-Magnon. The earliest Homo sapiens had features of modern humans and archaic ones. According to their remains they could be distinguished into three types that differ by place and time of founding, and their interpretation.The first one is Grimaldi type with wide face, broad nose, massive mandible, and short stature. This type is considered as contemporary and belongs to the Negroid race. The second is Brunn type that has similarities in morphology with Neanderthals, especially in developed superciliary relief, and deemed as the one of the anthropological type of European race. Finally, African type is allocated and characterized as modern Bushman with their long and wide cranium and broad nose (Sytnyk 110-111).This classification, based on remains of the earliest Homo sapiens, is essential for researches in the field of human variability that is connected with human races and does not involve with negative connotations of word ‘race’. However, after racism had emerged, any study of human races became unwanted even in scientific community.

References:
Sytnyk, Olexandr. Cultural anthropology: human and society origins. Lviv: Lviv polytechnic press, 2012. Print.