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'''Caucasoid''' was a [[word]] for a [[person]] from [[Europe]], [[West Asia]], [[South Asia]], [[Central Asia]], [[North Africa]], or the [[Horn of Africa]]. The group of these persons was called "Caucasoid race" or '''Caucasian race'''.<ref>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."</ref> In former times, many people divided [[human beings]] into three [[Historical definitions of race|races]]. These races were called ''Caucasoid'', ''[[Mongoloid]]'', and ''[[Negroid]]''. Today, scientists agree that there is only one human race. Modern [[Genetics|genetic]] research has shown that the idea of three races was wrong.<ref>{{cite web|author=American Association of Physical Anthropologists|title=AAPA Statement on Race and Racism |website=American Association of Physical Anthropologists|accessdate=19 June 2020 |date=27 March 2019 |url=https://physanth.org/about/position-statements/aapa-statement-race-and-racism-2019/}}</ref><ref name="Templeton2016">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. {{doi|10.2307/j.ctv7h0s6j.26}}. That this view reflects the consenus among American anthropologists is stated in: {{cite journal|last2=Yu|first2=Joon-Ho|last3=Ifekwunigwe|first3=Jayne O.|last4=Harrell|first4=Tanya M.|last5=Bamshad|first5=Michael J.|last6=Royal|first6=Charmaine D.|date=February 2017|title=Anthropologists' views on race, ancestry, and genetics|journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology|volume=162|issue=2|pages=318–327|doi=10.1002/ajpa.23120|last1=Wagner|first1=Jennifer K.}}</ref>{{rp|360}}

'''Caucasoid''' was a [[word]] for a [[person]] from [[Europe]], [[West Asia]], [[South Asia]], [[Central Asia]], [[North Africa]], or the [[Horn of Africa]]. The group of these persons was called "Caucasoid race" or '''Caucasian race'''.<ref>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."</ref> In former times, many people divided [[human beings]] into three [[Historical definitions of race|races]]. These races were called ''Caucasoid'', ''[[Mongoloid]]'', and ''[[Negroid]]''. Today, scientists agree that there is only one human race. Modern [[Genetics|genetic]] research has shown that the idea of three races was wrong.<ref>{{cite web|author=American Association of Physical Anthropologists|title=AAPA Statement on Race and Racism |website=American Association of Physical Anthropologists|accessdate=19 June 2020 |date=27 March 2019 |url=https://physanth.org/about/position-statements/aapa-statement-race-and-racism-2019/}}</ref><ref name="Templeton2016">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. {{doi|10.2307/j.ctv7h0s6j.26}}. That this view reflects the consenus among American anthropologists is stated in: {{cite journal|last2=Yu|first2=Joon-Ho|last3=Ifekwunigwe|first3=Jayne O.|last4=Harrell|first4=Tanya M.|last5=Bamshad|first5=Michael J.|last6=Royal|first6=Charmaine D.|date=February 2017|title=Anthropologists' views on race, ancestry, and genetics|journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology|volume=162|issue=2|pages=318–327|doi=10.1002/ajpa.23120|last1=Wagner|first1=Jennifer K.|pmid=27874171|pmc=5299519}}</ref>{{rp|360}}

German [[anthropologist]] [[Johann Friedrich Blumenbach]] (1752 – 1840) invented the name ''Caucasian race'' because he saw a connection to the [[Caucasus Mountains]].  

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 "Caucasian race" included people with a skin from white to dark brown.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u9QKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA265|title=The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ...|last=Blumenbach|first=Johann Friedrich|last2=Bendyshe|first2=Thomas|last3=Marx|first3=Karl Friedrich Heinrich|last4=Flourens|first4=Pierre|last5=Wagner|first5=Rudolph|last6=Hunter|first6=John|date=1865|publisher=Anthropological Society|language=en}}</ref>

In the [[United States]], [[white people]] are often called "Caucasian". But the "Caucasian race" included people with a skin from white to dark brown.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u9QKAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA265|title=The Anthropological Treatises of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach ...|last1=Blumenbach|first1=Johann Friedrich|last2=Bendyshe|first2=Thomas|last3=Marx|first3=Karl Friedrich Heinrich|last4=Flourens|first4=Pierre|last5=Wagner|first5=Rudolph|last6=Hunter|first6=John|date=1865|publisher=Anthropological Society|isbn=9780878211241|language=en}}</ref>

==Pictures==

== Pictures ==

Some persons in the pictures have white skin, others have brown skin. But in former times, scientists saw all persons in the pictures as members of the "Caucasian race".

Some persons in the pictures have white skin, others have brown skin. But in former times, scientists saw all persons in the pictures as members of the "Caucasian race".

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File:Georgian kids in chokha.JPG|Children from [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] in the Caucasus region.

File:Georgian kids in chokha.JPG|Children from [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]] in the Caucasus region

File:Somali_children.JPEG|Children from [[Somalia]].

File:Somali_children.JPEG|Children from [[Somalia]]

File:Mataaneynta-Bosaso-Minneapolis2.jpg|Officials from [[Minneapolis]] and the Somalian town of Bosaso.

File:Mataaneynta-Bosaso-Minneapolis2.jpg|Officials from [[Minneapolis]] and the Somalian town of Bosaso

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==References==

 

 

File:Blumenbach-Caucasian.jpg|Drawing of the skull of a [[Georgians|Georgian]] female by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, used as an archetype for the Caucasian racial characteristics in his 1795 ''De Generis Humani Varietate''

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== References ==

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