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Where did the caucasian get there name from?

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∙ 12y ago
Updated: 8/23/2023

In 1795, German anthropologist Johann Blumenbach proposed the Caucasus mountain range and its corresponding valleys were the ancestral original home of the imagined 'white' race. It took less than a hundred years for the term to be abandoned in an anthropological/historical sense.

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