Did white people come from the Caucuses mountains?

The concept of a Caucasian race or Varietas Caucasia was developed around 1800 by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, a German scientist and classical anthropologist.

He named it after the peoples from the Caucasus region, whom he considered to be the archetype for the grouping.

However, modern day tracing of ancestry based on human genome studies have not demonstrated a precise genetic definition of Caucasian and most scholars believe that Blumenbach's ideas are pure fiction.