||This article may contain parts that are misleading. (August
2012)| The Nordic race is one of the sub-races into which some
late 19th- to mid 20th-century anthropologists divided the
Caucasian race. People of the Nordic type were described as
having light-colored (typically blond) hair, light-colored
(typically blue) eyes, fair skin and tall stature, and they were
empirically considered to predominate in the countries of
Central and Northern Europe. Anthropologist Carleton S. Coon in
his work The races of Europe (1939) subscribed to depigmentation
theory that claimed that Nordic race's light-coloured skin was
the result of depigmentation from their ancestors of the
Mediterranean race. A 1990s study by Ulrich Mueller found that
depigmentation of Nordic peoples around the Baltic Sea likely
occurred due to vitamin D deficiency amongst peoples living
there 10,000-30,000 years ago who had a lack of access to
vitamin D foods such as dairy products at the time.
Depigmentation allowed greater amount of ultraviolet B