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It has been suggested that this article be merged into Caucasian race. (Discuss) Proposed since December 2006.

This redirect is about the Caucasoid racial category used in anthropology. For the Caucasian race in general, see Caucasian race.

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Typical Caucasoid skull

The Caucasoid race is one of five racial categories as defined by the physical anthropologist Carleton S. Coon in 1934. 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.

According to Leonard Lieberman, Rodney C. Kirk, and Alice Littlefield, 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 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.

Footnotes

Tishkoff, S. A., and Kidd, K. K. Implications of biogeography of human populations for 'race' and medicine: Nature Genetics, 36, S21 - S27 (2004)
Leonard Lieberman, Rodney C. Kirk, and Alice Littlefield, "Perishing Paradigm: Race—1931-99," American Anthropologist 105, no. 1 (2003): 110-13
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1438.html
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

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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>		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>

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