Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . rtwo dwarfs. This is seen in Fig. i6, where each indi-vidual is represented by a dot, and the dots representingrnen of the mean or typical stature crowd into a looking at this, the reader will more easily understandQuetelets diagram. Fig. 17, where the heights or ordinatesof the binomial curve show the numbers of men of each III.] RACES OF MANKIND. V stature, decreasing both ways from the central five feet eightinches which is the steture of the mean or typical , in a total of near 2,600 men, there are 160
Anthropology; an introduction to the study of man and civilization . rtwo dwarfs. This is seen in Fig. i6, where each indi-vidual is represented by a dot, and the dots representingrnen of the mean or typical stature crowd into a looking at this, the reader will more easily understandQuetelets diagram. Fig. 17, where the heights or ordinatesof the binomial curve show the numbers of men of each III.] RACES OF MANKIND. V stature, decreasing both ways from the central five feet eightinches which is the steture of the mean or typical , in a total of near 2,600 men, there are 160 of fivefeet eight inches, but only about 150 of five feet seveninches or five feet nine inches, and so on, till not even tenmen are found so short as five feet or so tall as six feet fourinches. As the proverb says, it takes all sorts to make aworld, so it thus appears that a race is a body of peoplecomprising a regular set of variations, which centre roundone representative type. In the same way a race or nationis estimated as to other characters, as where a mean. 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. [ci:ap.
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