Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . lly found in a tropical climate. The main lineof black races stretches along the hot and fertile regions ofthe equator, from Guinea in West Africa to that great islandof the Eastern Archipelago, which has its name of NewGuinea from its negro-like natives. In a former geologicalperiod an equatorial continent (to Sclater has giventhe name of Lemuria) may even have stretched across fromAfrica to the far East, uniting these now separate attention of anthropologists has been particularlyattracted by a line of isla
Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . lly found in a tropical climate. The main lineof black races stretches along the hot and fertile regions ofthe equator, from Guinea in West Africa to that great islandof the Eastern Archipelago, which has its name of NewGuinea from its negro-like natives. In a former geologicalperiod an equatorial continent (to Sclater has giventhe name of Lemuria) may even have stretched across fromAfrica to the far East, uniting these now separate attention of anthropologists has been particularlyattracted by a line of islands in the Sea of Bengal, theAndamans, which might have been part of this formercontinent, and were found inhabited by a scanty population .,3 ANTHROPOLOGY. [chap. of rude and childlike savages. These Mincopis (Fig. 23)are small in stature (the men under five feet), with skin ofblackness, and hair very flat in section and frizzled, whichfrom their habit of shaving their heads must be imagined bythe reader. But while in these points resembling the African --^-<^. 23.—Andaman Islanders. negro, they are unlike him in having skulls not narrow, butbroad and rounded, nor have they lips so full, a nose so wide,or jaws so projecting as his. It has occurred to anatomists,and the opinion has been strengthened by Flowers studyof their skulls, that the Andaman tribes may be a remnantof a very early human stock, perhaps the best representa- III.] RACES OF MANKIND. 89 tives of the primitive negro type which has since altered invarious points in its spread o\er its wide district of theworld. The African negro race, with its special marks ofnarrow skull, projecting jaws, black-brown skin, woollyhair, flattened nose, full and out-turned lips, has already-been here described (see pages 61 to 67). Its typeperhaps shows itself most perfectly in the nations nearthe equator, as in Guinea, but it spreads far and wideover the continent, shading off by crossing with lightercoloured races on i
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