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The populations of the earth are very variously in body structure and facial features. How can these data be systematized? Can the morphological diversity of mankind serve as a source of information? The Russian school of physical anthropology adheres to the population-typological concept of race. It is argued that the entire set of morphological variants can be divided into a limited number of morphological types, each of which is associated with a specific region of the earth in its origin. However, one individual cannot be the carrier of an anthropological type. The fact is that racial characters are inherited mosaic, independently of each other, therefore only a group of people, a population, can be a anthropological type carrier. There are various anthropological types, such as the Mediterranean, Dinar or Alpine can be found in the Balkan region. Each of them is associated with different regions of Europe in its genesis. The study of morphological features of a population makes it possible to reconstruct the origin of this group no less accurately than paleogenetics does.