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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.



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