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The anthropometric term Caucasoid was used to describe "European Continental Ancestry Group" while "specific geography if relevant" may include this group's few if any descendents in present day "North Africa or Southwestern Asia, including India.". Examples of the European Continental Ancestry Group include the European people, White Canadian, White African, European American and other white peoples.

The suffix -oid indicates "a similarity, not necessarily exact, to something else", so Caucasoid means "resembling" the Caucasian race, itself a term with an inexact definition.

Physical traits

The European Continental Ancestry Group has diverse traits.

• Southern European (Mediterranean): The Southern European has angular facial forms, varying head shape and brownish coloration.Southern Europeans live in Spain, Portugal, Italy and other Southern European nations.

• Northern European (Nordic): Nordic individuals are most commonly found in Northern European nations such as Scandinavia, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, British Isles, and the Alps.

• Eastern European (Alpine): Eastern Europeans live in the Slavic countries and Russia. They have dark coloration with angular features.

Genetics

It has recently been demonstrated in several studies that to a large extent, without prior knowledge of individual origins, the geographic ancestries of individuals can be inferred from genetic markers.

In one of the most extensive of these studies to date, considering 1,056 individuals from 52 human populations, with each individual genotyped for 377 autosomal microsatellite markers, it's been found that individuals could be partitioned into six main genetic clusters, five of which corresponded to Africa, Europe and the part of Asia south and west of the Himalayas, East Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.

According to Armand Marie Leroi, these division correspond to "more or less the major races of traditional anthropology". Races of traditional anthropology include Caucasoid.

However, Some individuals from boundary locations between these regions were inferred to have partial ancestry in the clusters that corresponded to both sides of the boundary. Also, in many cases, subclusters that corresponded to individual populations or to subsets of populations were also identified.

Footnotes

1. National Library of Medicine. European Continental Ancestry Group. 2004. December 10, 2006..
2. European Bioinformatics Institute. Description of Ethnic Origin Quantifier. 2006. December 10, 2006.
3. American Heritage Book of English Usage. -oid. 1996. September 14, 2006. .
4. Bartleby.com "-oid". 1994. December 10, 2006. .
5. National Library of Medicine. European Continental Ancestry Group. 2004. December 10, 2006..
6. P&G Beauty and Science. The World of Hair. 2003. September 16, 2006. .
7. Biasutti, Renato. Description of Europid Races. 1954. September 14, 2006. <.
8. Racial Reality. Caucasoid Subraces. 2006. September 16, 2006. .
9. Biasutti, Renato. Description of Europid Races. 1954. September 14, 2006. .
10. Biasutti, Renato. Description of Europid Races. 1954. September 14, 2006. .
11. ^ Clines, Clusters, and the Effect of Study Design on the Inference of Human Population Structure
12. A Family Tree in Every Gene by Armand Marie Leroi who is an evolutionary developmental biologist at Imperial College in London, is the author of Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
13. NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER HOWARD UNIVERSITY

See also

• Caucasian race
• European American
• European people
• Craniofacial Anthropometry
• White people

• Physical anthropology
• Race