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How and why did racist pseudoscience shift from favouring people of the Caucasus (hence "Caucasian") in the 18th and 19th centuries, to favouring people of Europe's northern Germanic regions by the early 20th century?

by /u/PablomentFanquedelic in /r/AskHistorians

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