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It was mainly used to differentiate between the dark-skinned and white-skinned people. This view was based upon the Caucasus being the location for the purported landing point of Noah's Ark – from whom the Bible states that humanity is descended – and the location for the suffering of Prometheus, who in Hesiod's myth had crafted humankind from clay. The term Caucasian was born in the 19th century. A 2008 study done by * Both Judaism and Islam see him as the ancestor of Arab peoples. Shia Islam is dominant among the Arab population in Another important and unifying characteristic of Arabs is a common Arabic has developed into at least two distinct forms. Oxford University Press. It encompassed a large part of the planet, stretching from southern Europe to This era can be identified as the years between 692 and 945,The birth of the University institution can be traced to this development, as several universities and educational institutions of the Arab world such as the There are four principal West Eurasian autosomal DNA components that characterize the populations in the Arab world: the Arabian, Levantine, Coptic and Maghrebi components. Since the second half of the 20th century, physical anthropologists have moved away from a typological understanding of human biological diversity towards a genomic and population-based perspective, and have tended to understand race as a social classification of humans based on phenotype and ancestry as well as cultural factors, as the concept is also understood in the social sciences.In the eighteenth century, the prevalent view amongst European scholars was that It was Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a colleague of Meiners', who later came to be considered one of the founders of the discipline of There was never any consensus among the proponents of the concept the existence of a "Caucasoid race" with regard to how it would be delineated from other proposed groups such as the proposed In 1939 Coon argued that the Caucasian race had originated through admixture between After discussing various criteria used in biology to define subspecies or races, Variation in craniofacial form between humans has been found to be largely due to differing patterns of biological inheritance. (2nd edition) Reichs, Kathleen l(ed. ), pp.
Vartan Gregorian, "Islam: A Mosaic, Not a Monolith", Brookings Institution Press, 2003, pg 26–38 Histoire des Berbères et des dynasties musulmanes de l'Afrique septentrionale par Ibn KhaldounBaynes, Thomas Spencer (ed). In the Arabs have greatly influenced and contributed to diverse fields, notably the arts and architecture, The oldest surviving indication of an Arab national identity is an inscription made in an archaic form of Arabic in 328 CE using the Pre-Islamic Arabia refers to the Arabian Peninsula prior to the rise of Islam in the 630s. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science, and Technology in Islam. The Arabian component is the main autosomal element in the The Levantine component is the main autosomal element in the The Coptic component is the main autosomal element in The Maghrebi component is the main autosomal element in the Maghreb. Besides its use in anthropology and related fields, the term "Caucasian" has often been used in the United States in a different, social context to describe a group commonly called "The Caucasus as the origin of humanity and the peak of beautyThe Caucasus as the origin of humanity and the peak of beautyTempleton, A.
Census says yes, but many disagree.
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Date:07-08-2016 John Warren (2005). Rao and S. Yaseen Saheb, Affiliated East-West PressPeople of India: Volume XXII: Gujarat (3 Parts-Set): Edited by R.B. Arabians are most prevalent in the Arabian Peninsula, but are also found in large numbers in Mesopotamia (This traditional division of the Arabs of Arabia may have arisen at the time of the The Bedouins of western Egypt and eastern Libya are traditionally divided into The Arabs of the Maghreb are descendants of Arabian tribes of Although all Arab states have Arabic as an official language, there are many non-Arabic-speaking populations native to the Arab world.
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