Caucasian race
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Caucasian is a word for a person from Europe, West Asia, North Africa and some parts of South Asia, Central Asia, and the Horn of Africa. The group of these persons was called "Caucasoid race" or Caucasian race.[1] In former times, many people divided human beings into three broad categories or races. These races were called Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid. Today, scientists agree that there is only one human species although modern genetic research has shown that different genetic variations and traits do exist, with general overlapping biological features common to these subgroups.[2][3]: Script error: The function "hyphen2dash" does not exist. 
German anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752 – 1840) invented the name Caucasian race because he saw a connection to the Caucasus Mountains.
In the United States, white people are often called "Caucasian". But the actual "Caucasian race" included people with a skin from white to relatively brown.[4]
Caucasian Race Media
Christoph Meiners' 1785 treatise The Outline of History of Mankind was the first work to use the term Caucasian (Kaukasisch) in its wider racial sense. (Click on image for English translation of the text)
Drawing of the skull of a Georgian female by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, used as an archetype for the Caucasian racial characteristics in his 1795 De Generis Humani Varietate
References
- ↑ The Races of Europe by Carlton Stevens Coon. From Chapter XI: The Mediterranean World - Introduction: "This third racial zone stretches from Spain across the Straits of Gibraltar to Morocco, and thence along the southern Mediterranean shores into Arabia, East Africa, Mesopotamia, and the Persian highlands; and across Afghanistan into India."
- ↑ American Association of Physical Anthropologists. AAPA Statement on Race and Racism. American Association of Physical Anthropologists (27 March 2019). Retrieved 19 June 2020.
- ↑ Templeton, A. (2016). EVOLUTION AND NOTIONS OF HUMAN RACE. In Losos J. & Lenski R. (Eds.), How Evolution Shapes Our Lives: Essays on Biology and Society (pp. 346-361). Princeton; Oxford: Princeton University Press. . That this view reflects the consenus among American anthropologists is stated in: Wagner, Jennifer K.. Anthropologists' views on race, ancestry, and genetics. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 162 (2) (February 2017). p. 318–327. doi:10.1002/ajpa.23120.
- ↑ Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich. The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ... (in en) (1865)Anthropological Society. ISBN 9780878211241.