Coon's understanding of racial typology and diversity within the Indian sub-continent changed over time.

He produced racial typologies, in his expository writings; they were more systematic than those of John George Wood and Robert Brown, and were intended for rote learning.

It was such persistent racial typology - the notion that blacks were biomedically inferior - that kept alive the argument that better medical care could not change the scheme of evolution.

Balkans-Caucasian race is a concept historically used in racial typology as one of the sub-races of the Caucasian race.

Such racial typologies have been rejected by modern anthropology for several reasons, especially since the rise of molecular anthropology.

In his earlier racial typology, Meiners maintained that Caucasians had the "whitest, most blooming and most delicate skin".

Racism has a long history in China, and racial typologies are rooted in traditional Chinese thought.

The term is commonly associated with notions of racial typology which are disputed by a majority of anthropologists.

Various attempts have been made, under the British Raj and since, to classify the population of India according to a racial typology.