. Adventures with animals and plants. Biology. PROBLEM The Stages of Mcnis Develop7fiem on the Earth 575 ceive the blood. The different types of blood must be kept separate by hospitals. Now some people have hastily jumped to the conclusion that the blood of the / / "^^ different races must be of different type. I / S ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ been shown that the same four J_J—.,—i„_ I I _ aJm blood types occur among the members of all the races. For this reason it is not necessary to keep separate the blood of different races for use in transfusion. Wrong uses of the word race. Man is subdivided i
. Adventures with animals and plants. Biology. PROBLEM The Stages of Mcnis Develop7fiem on the Earth 575 ceive the blood. The different types of blood must be kept separate by hospitals. Now some people have hastily jumped to the conclusion that the blood of the / / "^^ different races must be of different type. I / S ^^^^ ^^ ^^^ been shown that the same four J_J—.,—i„_ I I _ aJm blood types occur among the members of all the races. For this reason it is not necessary to keep separate the blood of different races for use in transfusion. Wrong uses of the word race. Man is subdivided into stocks and races merely as a matter of convenience to anthro- pologists (an-throw-pol'oh-jists), those who study man. But the word race has been picked up by many people who use it in common speech in a variety of ways. Some people speak of the "white race" when they should speak of the white or Caucasoid stock. You may have heard people speaking, too, of a Jewish or an Aryan or an Italian race. When they speak of an Italian race they are confusing a race with a nation. People who live within certain boundaries and pay taxes in Italy are Italians. They may have white or black skins and straight or wavy hair, yet they belong to the Italian nation. Italy contains members of all three Caucasoid races, not to men- tion people of other stocks. The same is true of all other European countries. Even Scandinavian countries, which are often thought of as Nordic, have many inhabitants who belong definitely to the Alpine or Alediterranean races. The most that can be said is that the proportion of Nordics in Scandinavia is larger than in other countries. When people speak of a "Jewish race" they are making a different type of error; they are confusing religious or Fig. 523 By uiaking use of thousands of meas- urements, Dr. H. L. Shapiro has been able to construct figures illustrating some of the races of the three great stocks of Jtiankind. At the top is the C
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