Caucasians
according to Blumenbach's ethnological system, represent the
European or highest type of the human race, so called from Caucasus,
the mountainous range. Whilst the professor was studying ethnology, he
was supplied with a skull from these regions, which he considered the
standard of the human type.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Caucasians from Fact Monster:
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