Irish man, Mediterranean typeAfghan man, Iranid typeTajik man, Alpine typeCatalan man, Iberian typeArmenian man, Armenoid typeBisharin man, Hamitic typeDanish man, Nordic typeHindu man, Aryan type The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, or Europid) is a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon, including some or all of the populations of Europe, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, Central Asia and South Asia. The term has been used in biological anthropology for many people from these regions, without regard necessarily to skin tone. First introduced in early racial science and anthropometry, the term denoted one of the three purported major races of humankind (Caucasoid, Mongoloid, Negroid). Many social scientists have argued that such analyses are root