高加索人種（英語：Caucasian race, Caucasoid），[1]或称欧罗巴人种（英語：Europid, Europoid），是歷史上被認為是一個過時的生物分類階元[2]人種劃分，主要分佈在歐洲、北非、非洲之角、西亞、中亞、南亞、北美、北亞、南美和大洋洲。[3]這個術語在體質人類學中用於來自這些地域的很多人群，與人類膚色沒有必然性關聯。[4]高加索人種的种族主要有雅利安人種、閃米特人種和含米特人種，還包括烏拉爾語系民族等。
- ^ For a contrast with the "Mongolic" or Mongoloid race, see footnote #4 of page 58–59 in Beckwith, Christopher. (2009). Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-13589-2.
- ^ Sankar, Pamela. MEDLINE definitions of race and ethnicity and their application to genetic research. Nature Genetics. June 2003, 34 (2): 119 [2020-09-01]. ISSN 1546-1718. PMID 12776106. S2CID 8927634. doi:10.1038/ng0603-119. （原始内容存档于2021-03-10） （英语）.
- ^ Coon, Carleton Stevens. The Races of Europe. New York: The Macmillan Company. 1939: 400–401.
This third racial zone stretches from Spain across the Straits of Gibraltar to Morocco, and thence along the southern Mediterranean shores into Arabia, East Africa, Mesopotamia, and the Persian highlands; and across Afghanistan into India[...] The Mediterranean racial zone stretches unbroken from Spain across the Straits of Gibraltar to Morocco, and thence eastward to India[...] A branch of it extends far southward on both sides of the Red Sea into southern Arabia, the Ethiopian highlands, and the Horn of Africa.
- ^ Grolier Incorporated, Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 6, (Grolier Incorporated, 2001), p.85