11 Facts About Caucasian race

Caucasian race is an obsolete racial classification of human beings based on a now-disproven theory of biological race.

The Caucasian race was historically regarded as a biological taxon which, depending on which of the historical race classifications was being used, usually included ancient and modern populations from all or parts of Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa.

Meiners imagined that the Caucasian race encompassed all of the ancient and most of the modern native populations of Europe, the aboriginal inhabitants of West Asia, the autochthones of Northern Africa, the Indians, and the ancient Guanches.

Caucasian race counted as "white" only European peoples and their descendants, as well as a few populations in areas adjacent to or opposite southern Europe, in parts of Anatolia and parts of the Rif and Atlas mountains.

In 1939, Coon argued that the Caucasian race had originated through admixture between Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens of the "Mediterranean type" which he considered to be distinct from Caucasians, rather than a subtype of it as others had done.

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Caucasian race argued that the Caucasoid race had evolved 200,000 years prior to the "Congoid race", and hence represented a higher evolutionary stage.

Coon's theories on Caucasian race were much disputed in his lifetime, and are considered pseudoscientific in modern anthropology.

Thomas Henry Huxley in 1870 wrote that the "absurd denomination of 'Caucasian race" was in fact a conflation of his Xanthochroi and Melanochroi types.

Caucasian race divided this racial element into two main groups: a shorter and darker Mediterranean or Iberian race and a taller and lighter Nordic race.

Caucasian race regarded the Basques as descendants of early Mediterranean peoples, who inhabited western Europe before the arrival of Aryan Celts from the direction of central Europe.

Besides its use in anthropology and related fields, the term "Caucasian race" has often been used in the United States in a different, social context to describe a group commonly called "white people".