Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . tiL,. a.— and Bushmaa measure round the chest depends a good deal on his way oflife, as do also the lengths of arm and leg, which are noteven the same in soldiers and sailors. But there are certaindistinctions which are inherited, and mark differentraces. Thus there are long-limbed and short-limbed tribes of III.] RACES OF MANKIND. 59 mankind. The African negro is remarkable for length ofarm and leg, the Aymara Indian of Peru for shortness. Sup-posing an ordinary Englishman to be altered to the buildof a negro, he w
Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . tiL,. a.— and Bushmaa measure round the chest depends a good deal on his way oflife, as do also the lengths of arm and leg, which are noteven the same in soldiers and sailors. But there are certaindistinctions which are inherited, and mark differentraces. Thus there are long-limbed and short-limbed tribes of III.] RACES OF MANKIND. 59 mankind. The African negro is remarkable for length ofarm and leg, the Aymara Indian of Peru for shortness. Sup-posing an ordinary Englishman to be altered to the buildof a negro, he would want 2 in. more in the arm and i in the leg, while to bring him to the proportions ofan Aymara his arm Avould have to be shortened ^ in. andhis leg 1 in. from their present lengths. An instructiveway of noticing these differences is to look back to theskeletons of apes and man (Fig. 5). In an uprightposition and reaching down with the middle finger, thegibbon can touch its foot, the orang its ankle, the chim-panzee its knee, while man only reaches p
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