Proto-Mongoloid is an outdated racial classification of human beings based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. In anthropological theories of the 19th and 20th centuries, proto-Mongoloids were seen as the ancestors of the Mongoloid race.
Notable examples of fossils that were formerly thought to belong to the proto-Mongoloid group are found in Late Pleistocene (Upper Paleolithic) fossils, notably the Minatogawa skeletons and the Liujiang crania.
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... the answer to the question whether races exist in humans is clear and unambiguous: no.
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- Matt Cartmill, Fred H. Smith, The Human Lineage, John Wiley & Sons (2009), p. 449.