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The Caucasoid race is a term used by some physical anthropologists often define Caucasoid to describe people indigenous to an area including Europe, South Asia, Middle East, North Africa, and certain areas of Central Asia.

The suffix -oid indicates "a similarity, not necessarily exact, to something else", so Caucasoid can be expected to refer to a wider range of people than Caucasian race, itself a term with an inexact definition.

According to modern mainstream anthropology, the Caucasoid race is a concept that emerged as a result of history, not genetics.

One undergraduate anthropology textbook states: "Races are the products of the past. They are relics of times and conditions which have long ceased to exist." Race and subspecies have become synonymous to each other in many definitions.

Physical traits

Caucasoid hair type may either be wavy or straight and it comes in all diameters and colors.

Carleton S. Coon's book "The Races of Europe" , which was published in 1939, classified Caucasoids into subraces named after regions or archeological sites, such as: Brünn, Borreby, Alpine, Ladogan, East Baltic, Neo-Danubian, Lappish, Mediterranean, Atlanto-Mediterranean, East African, Irano-Afghan, Nordic, Hallstatt, Celtic, Tronder, Dinaric, Noric and Armenoid.

Mediterranean (Latin)

The Mediterranean subrace has been divided into the Mediterranean Proper and the Atlanto-Mediterranean. The Mediterranean varies in skin color from white to chestnut brown with a long linear skull and angular facial forms. They have rounded occiput and large eyes. Their nasal shape is pointed. The Mediterranean proper are either mesocephalic or brachycephalic. There racial type ranges from Spain, Portugal, Italy and other borderlands of the Mediterranean sea. The Cappodacian subrace has been absorbed into the Mediterranean, but still is visible in the Oriental Jew.

Nordic (Germanic)

Nordic individuals are most commonly found in Scandinavia, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, British Isles, and the Alps. They are also found in many other parts of the world, due to migration.

Dinaric (Adriatic)

Dinarics includes the populations of eastern Slavic Contries, and Russia and former Soviet republics. They have light brown to black hair. They are long in their limbs and face, but have a short skull. Their nasal bridge is high and their nasal profile is triangular. Their subraces include Pandanian and Noric.

Footnotes

1. American Heritage Book of English Usage. -oid. 1996. September 14, 2006. <http://www.bartleby.com/64/C008/037.html>.
2. American Anthropology Associaton Statement on Race
3. Robert Jurmain and others, Introduction to Physical Anthropology, 8th ed. (Belmont CA: Wadsworth, 2000), page 419.
4. P&G Beauty and Science. The World of Hair. 2003. September 16, 2006. <http://www.pg.com/science/haircare/hair_twh_37.htm;jsessionid=ONDUVUETQGE25QFIAJ1S0HWAVABHMLKG>.
5. Biasutti, Renato. Description of Europid Races. 1954. September 14, 2006. <http://www.geocities.com/dienekesp4/europids/>.
6. Racial Reality. Caucasoid Subraces. 2006. September 16, 2006. <http://www.sitesled.com/members/racialreality/subraces.html>.
7. Biasutti, Renato. Description of Europid Races. 1954. September 14, 2006. <http://www.geocities.com/dienekesp4/europids/>.
8. Biasutti, Renato. Description of Europid Races. 1954. September 14, 2006. <http://www.geocities.com/dienekesp4/europids/>.

See Also

• Caucasian race
• Australoid race
• Mongoloid race
• Negroid race
• Capoid race
• Races of physical anthropology
• Craniofacial Anthropometry
• White people

External links

• Caucasoid Subraces Classification by Carleton S. Coon.
• Caucasoid Subraces classificatioin by Renato Biasutti

• Physical anthropology
• Race