. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. Malay. This arrangement does not deal- with many races now known; and the Caucasian group is especiallycomplex, including as it does all the so-called white men, even suchdivergent peoples as Arabs and Swedes. Yet the term Caucasian has beenfound so practically convenient that, for want of a better, it is still Huxleys classification,—based on all the accumulat
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. Malay. This arrangement does not deal- with many races now known; and the Caucasian group is especiallycomplex, including as it does all the so-called white men, even suchdivergent peoples as Arabs and Swedes. Yet the term Caucasian has beenfound so practically convenient that, for want of a better, it is still Huxleys classification,—based on all the accumulatedanatomical as well as sociological knowledge of modernHuxleys times,—distinguishes four main types—the Australoid, thec ass ca ion. ]^ggj,QJ(.|^ ^]-^q Mongoloid, and the Xanthochroic ; the latterwith an important branch, the Melanochroic. The Australoid peoples have a chocolate-brown skin, dark brown or black eyes, black hair, usually wavy, narrow skull (long- Austraioid headed), strongly-developed brow-ridges, projecting jaw, large peop es. i^gg^i-^^ thick lips, and broad nose. Besides the Australian natives, many of the hill-tribes of India, and perhaps the Egyptians, belong to this type. INTROD AFRICAN, AMERICAN, AND AUSTRALASIAN ANIMALS. 14 INTR OD UCTION. The Negroid peoples have all shades of brown and blackish-brown skin, brown or black eyes, black hair (short, crisp, or woolly), narrow skulls, little developed brow-ridges, projecting jaws, thick, Negroid projecting lips, and flat, broad nose. This type includes, ^°P^^- besides the mass of Africans, the Cape Bushmen, who appear to be a specially modified branch, very short in stature, yellowish-brown in skin, with black eyes and hair; the Hottentots, whom Professor Huxley regards as a cross between Bushmen and ordinary negroes ; the Negritos Qi the Andaman Islands, Malacca, and the Philippines; the Papuans, New Caledonians, and Tasmanians. The Mongoloid peoples include the greater part of the people ofc
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