Meaning & use
Caucasoid
Relating to an outdated anthropological classification of humans historically associated with European, North African, and parts of Asian ancestry.
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Older textbooks classified populations as Caucasoid, Mongoloid, or Negroid, a system scientists now reject.
The term Caucasoid appears in older forensic anthropology literature to describe certain skeletal features.
A note on using this word
Caucasoid comes from a discredited 19th-century racial classification system; modern science treats human genetic variation as continuous rather than divided into such categories.
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