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	The '''Caucasoid race''' is one of five racial categories as defined by the ] ] in 1934. The other four races that Coon defined were the ], the ] race, the Negroid race and the ] race. These racial classifications were made on the basis of physical features.<ref>Tishkoff, S. A., and Kidd, K. K. ''Implications of biogeography of human populations for 'race' and medicine: Nature Genetics'', 36, S21 - S27 (2004) {{doi-inline\|10.1038/ng1438}}</ref>

	According to Leonard Lieberman, Rodney C. Kirk, and Alice Littlefield, The concept of race has all but been completely rejected by modern mainstream anthropology.<ref>Leonard Lieberman, Rodney C. Kirk, and Alice Littlefield, "Perishing Paradigm: Race—1931-99," ''American Anthropologist'' 105, no. 1 (2003): 110-13</ref> Sarah A Tishkoff and Kenneth K Kidd state, "Despite disagreement among anthropologists, this classification remains in use by many researchers, as well as lay people."<ref>http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1438.html</ref>

	The ] defines Caucasoid as an ] (rather than a race) which has "historical origins in Europe, North Africa or Southwestern Asia, including India". The Institute identifies eight ethnic groups: ], ], ], Caucasoid, ], Mixed, ] and ].<ref>http://www.ebi.ac.uk/imgt/hla/help/ethnic_help.html</ref>.

	The ] defines Caucasoid as as noun or adjective meaning ''Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Caucasian race.''<ref>http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50034773?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=Caucasoid&first=1&max_to_show=10</ref>
	The suffix ] can indicate "a similarity, not necessarily exact, to something else"<ref>http://www.bartleby.com/64/C008/037.html</ref>, so Caucasoid can mean "resembling" the ], itself a term with an inexact definition. Likewise, it can mean pertaining to or belonging to the Caucasian race.

	In the past, the ] used the term Caucasoid as a "racial stock" term (the other "racial stocks" were Australoid, Mongoloid, and Negroid). The "racial stock" categorization scheme was replaced in 2004 with Continental Population Groups which focuses on geographic origins.<ref>http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd03/nd03_med_data_changes.html</ref>


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