really no genetic basis the dinaric race or adriatic race or epirotic race is one of the sub categories of the europid white caucasian race into which it was divided by physical anthropologists in the early th century such racial typologies have been increasingly criticized for several reasons especially since the rise of molecular anthropology a funny statement really considering that genetics clearly showed that dinaric highlanders are predominantly slavicized paleolithic autochthons former bearers of the gravettian culture