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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>

	Today, over 60 years after Coon, Caucasian is not considered a race by either the ] nor the ]. 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>. In the past, the ] used the term Caucasoid as a "racial stock" term (the other "racial stocks" were Australoid, Caucasoid, 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>

	But ''Caucasian race'' remains in use in the non-scientific community. 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.



	==Genetics==
	], author of the acclaimed book '']'' (2002)-- which explains how genetic data has been used to trace human migrations over the past 50,000 years, when modern humans first migrated outside of Africa-- states that there were two migrations out of Africa, with one group taking a southern route and populating southern India and southeast Asia, then Melanesia, Micronesia and Australia, and the other group, accounting for 90% of the world's non-African populace (some 5 billion people as of late 2006), taking a northern route, eventually populating most of Eurasia (largely displacing the aboriginals in southern India, Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia in the process), North Africa and the Americas.

	In his book '']'', ] hypothesizes that the peoples of the Eurasian continent and beyond descend from a South Asian origin, with the founding population of Caucasoids (Western Eurasians) originating in Northwest India and the founding population of Mongoloids (Eastern Eurasians) originating in Northeast India/Nepal. Caucasoids spread North and West into Central Asia, West Asia, North Africa and Europe and South into Southern India and Sri Lanka, while Mongoloids spread North and East into Siberia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Polynesia, the Americas and Greenland. According to Oppenheimer, there was only one migration out of Africa, via a southern route, that consisted of a mere 200 individuals. One group ended up populating Melanesia, Micronesia and Australia (the Oceanic or Australasian branch of non-Africans) while the other populated the rest of the non-African world and North Africa (the aformentioned Eurasian branch of non-Africans). All people are of an ultimately East African origin, however.

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