Hoodpreet
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Feel like the forum needs this, cause I see too much "*x* aren't white" and "are *x* white" posting on here. Also cause I see too many people confusing Europeans with Caucasians.
To start, "Caucasoid" is not a race. It's an outdated craniometric classification that modern day population genetics has proven to be wrong. While the genetic macro-population "West Eurasian" does approximate "Caucasoid" to an extent in terms of encompassing many of the same groups, they are not the same, as Caucasoid was a much bigger-tent classification that included groups like North Indians, Ethiopians, and Somalis, who do NOT cluster with West Eurasians. European and West Eurasian people also do not have their origins in the Caucasus mountains like Blumenbach believed.
Each West Eurasian population can be autosomally modeled as a mix of three primary ancestral populations:
As you may notice, all four of these populations share a common Neolithic Anatolian "glue," which is why they're similar in the grand scheme of things and, to an extent, overlap at the margins. Here are some PCA clustering plots to help visualize the genetic distance:
West Eurasian PCA
Pan-Eurasian PCA
Global PCA
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Here are some of the most common phenotypes for each of the four West Eurasian sub-groups (they're not mutually exclusive, and can overlap):
European
Caucasian
West Asian
North African
To start, "Caucasoid" is not a race. It's an outdated craniometric classification that modern day population genetics has proven to be wrong. While the genetic macro-population "West Eurasian" does approximate "Caucasoid" to an extent in terms of encompassing many of the same groups, they are not the same, as Caucasoid was a much bigger-tent classification that included groups like North Indians, Ethiopians, and Somalis, who do NOT cluster with West Eurasians. European and West Eurasian people also do not have their origins in the Caucasus mountains like Blumenbach believed.
Each West Eurasian population can be autosomally modeled as a mix of three primary ancestral populations:
Europeans - Anatolian Neolithic Farmers + Western Hunter-Gatherers + Early-to-Middle Bronze Age Steppe Herders
Caucasians - Caucasus Hunter-Gatherers + Anatolian Neolithic Farmers + Eastern Hunter-Gatherers
West Asians - Iranian Neolithic Farmers + Anatolian Neolithic Farmers + Natufians
North Africans - Iberomaurusians + Natufians + Anatolian Neolithic Farmers (+ Sub-Saharan Africans for Egyptians and Southern Maghrebis)
As you may notice, all four of these populations share a common Neolithic Anatolian "glue," which is why they're similar in the grand scheme of things and, to an extent, overlap at the margins. Here are some PCA clustering plots to help visualize the genetic distance:
West Eurasian PCA
Pan-Eurasian PCA
Global PCA
View attachment eu0qru6u9k451.jpg
Here are some of the most common phenotypes for each of the four West Eurasian sub-groups (they're not mutually exclusive, and can overlap):
European
Caucasian
West Asian
North African
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