Stanley Marion Garn

Stanley Marion Garn (October 27, 1922 – August 31, 2007) was an American human biologist and educator.

He concluded that genetics forms a major component in determining a person's tendency for obesity, but socioeconomic factors are also significant.

[1] Garn died of complications from peripheral vascular disease on August 31, 2007, in Ann Arbor Michigan.

[6] He counted thirty-two local races in the world that had arisen from genetic isolation: (large local races) North-West European, North East European, Alpine, Mediterranean, Iranian, East African, Sudanese, Forest Negro, Bantu, Turkic, Tibetan, North Chinese, Extreme Mongoloid, South-East Asian, Hindu, Dravidian, North Amerindian, Central Amerindian, South Amerindian, Fuegian; (isolated small local races) Lapp, Pacific "Negrito", African Pygmy, Eskimo; (long-isolated marginal local races) Ainu, Murrayan Australian, Carpentarian Australian, Bushman and Hottentot; (hybrid population of known and recent origin) North American Colored, South African Colored, Ladino, Neo-Hawaiian.

[6] He believed the genetic isolation among Pacific Islanders had produced three separate races—Micronesians, Polynesians and Melanesians.

This map shows the racial classification scheme of the anthropologist Stanley Marion Garn in his book Human Races (1961) Archived March 27, 2009, at the Wayback Machine , although he considered thirty-two local subraces to exist within the nine major races.