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I'm currently reading a biography on the French General Alexandre Dumas and it gives details on about his life which involve himself being the sone of a native French nobalmen and a haitian slave of African origin. In the book it state that the concept of classyfing human populations into races based on their physical charateristics was new at the time. So I'd like to know who where the first to use of the concept of human races to classify human populations with differing phenotypes.
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