. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. the colour darker, but the cheek bones are more prominent, the hair coarse, scanty, and straight, the nose flattened; and sometimes the lips are very thick, and the jaws project, so that we have indications of a transition towards both the pyramidal and the progna- thous types. The south-western portion of Asia is occu- pied by the Arabs and other Semitic races, which, as will be presently explained, form the transition between the proper Asiatic and pro- per African nations. The whole remainder of the vast Asiatic conti
. The cyclopædia of anatomy and physiology. Anatomy; Physiology; Zoology. the colour darker, but the cheek bones are more prominent, the hair coarse, scanty, and straight, the nose flattened; and sometimes the lips are very thick, and the jaws project, so that we have indications of a transition towards both the pyramidal and the progna- thous types. The south-western portion of Asia is occu- pied by the Arabs and other Semitic races, which, as will be presently explained, form the transition between the proper Asiatic and pro- per African nations. The whole remainder of the vast Asiatic continent is occupied by nations which present a sufficiently close approximation to each other, either in physical characters or in lan- guage, or in both, to justify their association in one extensive group, under the name of Mongolulce. The typical character of this great family of nations, as seen in a Mongolian or a Tungus from Central Asia, consists in the pyramidal form of the skull (fig. 811. et seq.), with the broad flat face and prominent cheek-bones, and its antero-posterior diameter scarcely exceeding the parietal; the nose is flat, neither arched nor aquiline; the eyes drawn up wards at their outer angle (fig. 814.); the skin of a swarthy yellow ; the hair straight and scanty, and the beard deficient ; and the stature undersized. These characters are softened down in many members of the group ; and may even be entirely wanting, as for in- stance, in the Circassians and Georgians, (p. 1328.), termed by Dr. Latham the Dioscurian Mongolidas. Still they are very extensively distributed ; and there is by no means the same amount of variation in complexion, under the influence of temperature, that is seen in the Indo-Germanic races. The following, accord- ing to Dr. Latham, are the principal groups into which the Asiatic nations may be ar- ranged : — 1. The Scriform stock, distributed over China, Thibet, the Indo-Chinese penin- sula, and the base of the Himalayan range of
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