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Gould, Stephen Jay (1981). The mismeasure of man. New York: Norton. ISBN0-393-01489-4. — a history of the pseudoscience of race, skull measurements, and IQ inheritability
Piazza, Alberto; Cavalli-Sforza, L. L.; Menozzi, Paolo (1996). The history and geography of human genes. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. ISBN0-691-02905-9. — a major reference of modern population genetics
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Augstein, HF (1999). “From the Land of the Bible to the Caucasus and Beyond”. Trong Harris, Bernard; Ernst, Waltraud. Race, science and medicine, 1700–1960. New York: Routledge. tr. 58–79. ISBN0-415-18152-6.
Baum, Bruce (2006). The rise and fall of the Caucasian race: a political history of racial identity. New York: New York University Press. ISBN0-8147-9892-6.
Guthrie, Paul (1999). The Making of the Whiteman: From the Original Man to the Whiteman. Chicago, IL: Research Associates School Times. ISBN0-948390-49-2.
Wolf, Eric R.; Cole, John N. (1999). The Hidden Frontier: Ecology and Ethnicity in an Alpine Valley. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN0-520-21681-4.
