The term Caucasian as a racial category was first introduced in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen School of History – notably Christoph Meiners in 1785 and Johann Friedrich Blumenbach in 1795 [page needed] —it had originally referred in a narrow sense to the native inhabitants of the Caucasus region.. In his The Outline of History of Mankind (1785), the …

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840) divided the human species into five races in 1779, later founded on crania research (description of human skulls), and called them (1793/1795): the Caucasian race (Europe, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, North Africa and West Asia) the Mongolian race (East Asia, Central Asia and South Asia)

The term race or racial group refers to dividing the human species into groups. The most widely used human racial types are those based on visual traits (such as skin color, cranial, facial features, or type of hair). Modern biology says that there is only one human race.:360 But the word race also has a meaning in sociology.Many people react in one way if they see a white person …

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Il mammut lanoso (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach, 1799) è una specie estinta di elefante.Visse dai 200.000 a circa 5.000 anni fa, nel Pleistocene, in Europa, Asia e Nordamerica. È una delle specie di Mammut ad estinguersi più tardi, in epoche relativamente recenti.Questa specie estremamente adattata ad un clima gelido si è evoluta dal precedente mammut delle …

Kaukasische Rasse (auch Kaukasoide) ist eine Sammelbezeichnung, die in etwa dem Konzept der Europiden entspricht. Sie geht auf den deutschen Anthropologen Johann Friedrich Blumenbach zurück. Dieser definierte in seiner Schrift Von den verschiedenen Rassen der Menschen 1795 alle hellhäutigen Menschen als Kaukasier.. Bereits in der ersten Auflage seines Handbuchs der …