Editing Dinaric race (section)

==Origin and distribution==
[[Image:Deniker's Races de l'Europe (1899).jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Joseph Deniker]]'s map of European races (1899) identified "Dinarics" as the dominant group in parts of [[central Europe]], Northern [[Italy]] and the northwestern [[Balkans]].]]

Several theories were advanced regarding the genesis of the Dinaric race. Günther argued that the Dinaric race shared a common origin with the Hither Asiatic ([[Near Eastern]]) race in the [[Caucasus]] region. They left the Caucasus region and underwent [[selective pressure]], with the Dinaric race eventually possessing mental traits similar to the [[Nordic race|Nordic]] race. [[Jan Czekanowski]] believed that the Dinaric race arose from admixture between the Nordic and [[Armenoid race|Armenoid]] race.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bartulin |first=Nevenko |date=2012 |title=INTELLECTUAL DISCOURSE ON RACE AND CULTURE IN CROATIA 1900 1945 |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/204274 |journal=Hrčak |pages=197 |via=Hrčak}}</ref>

Coon also argued, however, in ''The Origin of Races'' (1962), that the Dinaric and some other categories "are not races but simply the visible expressions of the genetic variability of the intermarrying groups to which they belong."

He referred to the creation of this distinctive [[phenotype]] from the mixing of earlier separate groups as "dinaricisation". In his view Dinarics were a specific type that arose from ancient mixes of the [[Mediterranean race]] and [[Alpine race]].

According to the Dinaric model, Dinarics were to be found mainly in the mountainous areas of southeastern Europe: [[Albania]], [[Kosovo]], [[Montenegro]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Croatia]], [[Serbia]], [[Slovenia]], [[Austria]], part of northwestern [[Bulgaria]], and northwestern [[Northern Macedonia]]. Northern and eastern [[Italy]] was considered mostly a Dinaric area as well as western [[Greece]], [[Romania]], [[Moldova]], western [[Ukraine]], southeastern [[German language|German]]-speaking areas, and parts of southeastern [[France]].{{citation needed|date=September 2012}}