Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . ColoradoIndians, while in Fig. 43 the Cauixana Indians may standas examples of the rude and sluggish forest-men of tribes of America and Asia may thus be of oneoriginal stock, we must look cautiously at theories as tothe ocean and island routes by which Asiatics may havemigrated to people the New World. It is probable thatman had appeared there, as in the Old World, in anearlier geological period than the present, so that the firstkinship between the Mongols and the North AmericanIndians may go back to a time whe
Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . ColoradoIndians, while in Fig. 43 the Cauixana Indians may standas examples of the rude and sluggish forest-men of tribes of America and Asia may thus be of oneoriginal stock, we must look cautiously at theories as tothe ocean and island routes by which Asiatics may havemigrated to people the New World. It is probable thatman had appeared there, as in the Old World, in anearlier geological period than the present, so that the firstkinship between the Mongols and the North AmericanIndians may go back to a time when there was no oceanbetween them. What looks like later communication be-tween the two continents, is that the stunted Eskimo withtheir narrow roof-topped skulls may be a branch of theJapanese stock, while there are signs of the comparativelycivilized Mexicans and Peruvians having in some wayreceived arts and ideas from Asiatic nations. We come last to the white men, whose nations have allthrough history been growing more and more dominant io6 ANTHROPOLOGY. [ Fig. 41.—Colorado Indian (North America). intellectually, morally, and politically on the earth. Thoughcommonly spoken of as one variety of mankind, it is plainthat they are not a single uniform race, but a varied and III.] RACES OF MANKIND. 107
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