Caucasian Race

one of the three great races of mankind. It is the white race, as distinguished from the yellow and the black races. The name is derived from the Caucasus Mountains in which the finest specimens of the race were believed to live. The original home of the white man is believed to be North Africa. Roughly speaking, Europe and North Africa, including Abyssinia, Western Asia and India, Australasia and the two Americas, exclusive of Indians and Africans, are peopled by the white race. Many tribes of dark complexion belong to the white race as determined by the shape of the head, hair, eyes, and lips. The hair is never woolly; the nose is large; the lips are not oblique; the cheek bones are small; and the features are regular. There are perhaps 770,000,000 Caucasians, about half of the human race. See Population