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to: navigation, search  In some societies and among some
anthropologists, color terminology was used to label races,
sometimes in addition to a non-color term for the same race.
Identifying races in terms of their human skin color has been
common since at least the Physiognomica falsely attributed to
Aristotle.  Other scientists were more cautious about such
categorization, and Charles Darwin argued that the number of
categories, or in this case the number of different colors, is
completely arbitrary and subjective. For example, some claimed
three distinct colors, some four, and others have claimed even
more. In contrast, Darwin argued that there are gradations, or
degrees between the numbers of categories claimed, and not
distinct categories, or colors.[1]  Western
classifications[edit]  Johann Friedrich Blumenbach Further
information: Scientific racism  One of the earlier uses of the
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