The island of Madagascar is populated largely by the descendants of Southeast Asians-Austronesians. The final racial group Diamond will discuss is Asian. Most of the Khoisan were wiped out by disease or colonialist massacres before the beginning of the 20th century. Khoisan are physically characterized by yellowish skin and tightly coiled hair. Pygmies are physically characterized by their small size, dark skin, and large eyes and foreheads. Pygmies and Khoisan largely hail from the sub-Saharan region. Whites, as Diamond defines them, encompass people from North Africa with lighter skin and straighter hair. Blacks and whites “are familiar to Americans and Europeans and need no physical description.” Before 1492, blacks lived most in sub-Saharan Africa. Diamond offers some physical definitions of the five races he’ll discuss.
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