Ethnology. In Two Parts: I. Fundamental Ethnical Problems. II. The Primary Ethnical Groups, Volume 1The University Press, 1896 - 442 pages |
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Page 266 - We must necessarily infer that the development of the Negro and White proceeds on different lines. While with the latter the volume of the brain grows with the expansion of the brain-pan, in the former the growth of the brain is on the contrary arrested by the premature closing of the cranial sutures and lateral pressure of the frontal bone2.
Page 29 - In order to understand the existence of rudimentary organs, we have only to suppose that a former progenitor possessed the parts in question in a perfect state, and that under changed habits of life they became greatly reduced, either from simple disuse, or through the natural selection of those individuals which were least encumbered •with a superfluous part, aided by the other means previously indicated.
Page 160 - ... we are entitled to draw confidently the CONCLUSION that all human races are of one species and one family.
Page 104 - The question is still sub judice ; but should the find prove genuine, it will go some way to establish a warm interglacial period of long duration to give time for slow movements of migration between the eastern and western hemispheres before the second ice-age set in. From his studies of the Colombia formation McGee infers such an epoch for North America, where the relative erosion of running waters since the formation of the first (Columbia) and second deposits 1 Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra...
Page 386 - The almost simultaneous researches of Prof. Sayce and of Prof. Petrie in the Nile Valley thus complement each other. They attest in the whole of that region the presence at a remote epoch of Hamitic Ethiopians and Libyans, and explain the juxtaposition of these two peoples in the Second Book of Chronicles, where it is asked, " Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubim a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen ?
Page 222 - It is, however, quite open to any one adopting the Negro, Mongolian, and Caucasian as primary divisions, to place the Americans apart as a fourth. Now that the high antiquity of man in America, perhaps as high as that which he has in Europe, has been discovered, the puzzling problem, from which part of the Old World the people of America have sprung, has lost its significance. It is quite as likely that the people of Asia may have been derived from America as the reverse.
Page 420 - ... characters. The features are not only regular in the European sense, but often quite handsome, with large slightly curved nose, clear 1 "From the relics of the Stone Age and of the Kitchen middens of Japan, Professor Milne concludes that the Ainos once inhabited Japan as far south as Kiushiu " (Romyn Hitchcock, The Ainos of Japan, Washington, 1892, P- 435)2 Quoted by the Rev. John Batchelor, The Ainu, of Japan, 1892. brown or greenish eyes set straight in the head, and olive brown or fair complexion....
Page 266 - The Negro children were sharp, intelligent, and full of vivacity, but on approaching the adult period a gradual change set in. The intellect seemed to become clouded, animation giving place to a sort of lethargy, yielding to indolence. We must necessarily suppose that the development of the Negro and the white proceeds on different lines.
Page 77 - Ball's calculations. Anybody who has watched a healthy Innuit family in the process of making a meal on the luscious echinus or sea-urchin, would naturally imagine that in the course of a month they might pile up a great quantity of spinous debris. Both hands are kept busy conveying the sea-fruit to the capacious mouth ; with a skilful combined action of teeth and tongue, the shell is cracked, the rich contents extracted, and the former falls rattling to the ground in a continuous shower of fragments...
Page 305 - People," from suo, fen, swamp; but this cannot be because the m of suomi is radical; hence the assumption that " Finn " is a Teutonic translation of Suomi, in the sense of "Fen People," also falls through. Moreover to derive this word from Old Norse fen is philologically impossible. Here the e arises by umlaut from an original a, as in the Gothic fani, whereas Finn (Fenni, Finni, Tacitus, Germania 46 ; Pliny 4. 13) goes back to a time long prior to the appearance of umlaut in the Teutonic languages....