Carleton Coon and Ernest Hooton, professors of anthropology at Harvard University, have identified eight major and five minor characteristics of the Mongoloid people, which can also serve to describe the main physical features of the Chinese people: * thick, straight hair.
前述哈佛大學虎藤教授以及孔恩教授曾提出現代蒙古種的主要體質特徵，那也正是中國人的基本形象所在。這些共有八點較明顯的特點，以及五點較次要的：頭髮﹘﹘直而質地較粗，橫切面呈圓形。