And, on what basis can the Catalog of Human Population be attributed to esotericism? After all, in order to categorize something, probably it is necessary to study the question at least minimally: the subject matter itself and the history of this phenomenon.
In the Publications section of our website, there are references, for example, to presentations by Andrey Davydov (the author of the discovery of the Catalog of Human Population) at academic conferences. According to the rules, each presentation of this kind gets included in a book of abstracts of this conference, which always gets published as a book. In the Publications section one can find a link to this collection, which is held at the library of one of Russian universities, as well as at libraries of universities of other countries. In it one can find abstracts of presentation made by Andrey Davydov. His presentation was titled Is Shan Hai Jing—The Original Catalog Of Psychophysiological Human Structure?” (Publications section also includes scans of this collection).
It is unlikely that people not familiar with the scientific environment know this, but if you state that you are well familiar with the scientific environment, then you must be aware of that non-members of scientific communities, or presenters with a subject from the category of “esotericism” are not allowed to speak at any scientific events. We do not know how it is in your country, but this is so in Russian scientific institutions. Or, is a publication by the publishing house of Saint Petersburg State University, which is available at electronic libraries from the category .edu in different countries not an indication of that this is scientific research?
And, as for categorizations—research of Shan Hai Jing is more appropriate for the category of Scientific Approach To Esotericism.