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| The '''Caucasoid race''' is one of five racial categories as defined by the ] ] in 1934. |
The '''Caucasoid race''' is one of five racial categories as defined by the ] ] in 1934. According to many physical anthropologists (including Leonard Lieberman, Rodney C. Kirk, Alice Littlefield, Mat Cartmill, and Kaye Brown), 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. A following article in the same issue, by Mat Cartmill and Kaye Brown agree that the Negroid/Caucasoid/Mongoloid paradigm has fallen into near-total disfavor</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 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}} |
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> | ||
| 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 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>. | ||
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The Caucasoid race is one of five racial categories as defined by the physical anthropologist Carleton S. Coon in 1934. According to many physical anthropologists (including Leonard Lieberman, Rodney C. Kirk, Alice Littlefield, Mat Cartmill, and Kaye Brown), the concept of race has all but been completely rejected by modern mainstream anthropology . 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."
The other four races that Coon defined were the Mongoloid race, the Australoid race, the Negroid race and the Capoid race. These racial classifications were made on the basis of physical features.
The European Bioinformatics Institute defines Caucasoid as an ethnic group (rather than a race) which has "historical origins in Europe, North Africa or Southwestern Asia, including India". The Institute identifies eight ethnic groups: American Indian, Australian Aboriginal, Black, Caucasoid, Hispanic, Mixed, Oriental and Pacific Islander..
The Oxford English Dictionary defines Caucasoid as as noun or adjective meaning Of, pertaining to, or resembling the Caucasian race. The suffix -oid can indicate "a similarity, not necessarily exact, to something else", so Caucasoid can mean "resembling" the Caucasian race, itself a term with an inexact definition. Likewise, it can mean pertaining to or belonging to the Caucasian race.
In the past, the National Library of Medicine 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.
Genetics
Footnotes
- Leonard Lieberman, Rodney C. Kirk, and Alice Littlefield, "Perishing Paradigm: Race—1931-99," American Anthropologist 105, no. 1 (2003): 110-13. A following article in the same issue, by Mat Cartmill and Kaye Brown agree that the Negroid/Caucasoid/Mongoloid paradigm has fallen into near-total disfavor
- http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1438.html
- Tishkoff, S. A., and Kidd, K. K. Implications of biogeography of human populations for 'race' and medicine: Nature Genetics, 36, S21 - S27 (2004)
- http://www.ebi.ac.uk/imgt/hla/help/ethnic_help.html
- http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50034773?single=1&query_type=word&queryword=Caucasoid&first=1&max_to_show=10
- http://www.bartleby.com/64/C008/037.html
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/nd03/nd03_med_data_changes.html
See also
- Race
- Race and multilocus allele clusters
- Genetic views on race
- Caucasian race
- Caucasian peoples
- European American
- European people
- Craniofacial Anthropometry
- White people