Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . Fig. 17.—Race or Population arranged by Stature (Quctelets method). or typical Englishman may be said to measure 2)^ inchesround the cliest, and weigh about 144 pounds. So it ispossible to fix on the typical shade of complexion in anation, such as the Zulu black-brown. The result of theseplans is to show that the rough-and-ready method ofthe traveller is fairly accurate, when he chooses as hisrepresentative of a race the type of man and womanwhich he finds to exist more numerously than anyother. 73 ANTHROPOLOGY. [ Fig.
Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . Fig. 17.—Race or Population arranged by Stature (Quctelets method). or typical Englishman may be said to measure 2)^ inchesround the cliest, and weigh about 144 pounds. So it ispossible to fix on the typical shade of complexion in anation, such as the Zulu black-brown. The result of theseplans is to show that the rough-and-ready method ofthe traveller is fairly accurate, when he chooses as hisrepresentative of a race the type of man and womanwhich he finds to exist more numerously than anyother. 73 ANTHROPOLOGY. [ Fig. i8 —Caribs. III.] RACES OF MANKIND. 79 The people whom it is easiest to represent by singleportraits are uncivilised tribes, in whose food and way oflife there is little to cause difference between one man andanother, and who have lived together and intermarried fcrmany generations. Thus Fig. i8, taken from a photographof a party of Caribs, is remarkable for the close likenessrunning through all. In such a nation the race-type ispeculiarly easy to make out. It is by no means always thuseasy to represent a whole population. To see how difficult
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