Negroid
（重定向自Groid）
![Meyers Konversations-Lexikon (1885–90).
Caucasoid race: Aryan Semitic HamiticNegroid race: African Negro Khoisan Melanesian Negrito AustraloidUncertain: Dravida and SinhaleseMongoloid race: North Mongol Chinese and Indochinese Japanese and Korean Tibetan Malay Polynesian Maori Micronesian Eskimo American](/Images/godic/202501/16/Meyers_b11_s0476a1442.jpg")
![A Hausa man of Western Sudanese Negroid typeA Zulu woman of Bantu Negroid type](/Images/godic/202501/16/MPP-Ne11442.jpg")
![A Zulu woman of Bantu Negroid type](/Images/godic/202501/16/MPP-Ne21442.jpg")
![Human hair texture distribution](/Images/godic/202501/16/PSM_V52_D323_Global_hair_texture_map1443.png")
Negroid (also known as Congoid) is a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon. The term has been used by forensic and physical anthropologists to refer to individuals and populations that share certain morphological and skeletal traits that are frequent among most populations in Sub-Saharan Africa.