Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . PAPUAN TYPE, SHOWING CRISP HAIR. be persistent from generation to genera-tion and from century to century. Spec-imens of human hair recovered from the. c. AMERICAN INDIAN TYPE, SHOWING STRAIGHT by Riou. iarities and diversities of structure as arefound on the heads of living races. Suchspecific differences in the external cov-ering of the skull may well be used in ascientific way as a mark or criterion bywhich the dif
Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages . PAPUAN TYPE, SHOWING CRISP HAIR. be persistent from generation to genera-tion and from century to century. Spec-imens of human hair recovered from the. c. AMERICAN INDIAN TYPE, SHOWING STRAIGHT by Riou. iarities and diversities of structure as arefound on the heads of living races. Suchspecific differences in the external cov-ering of the skull may well be used in ascientific way as a mark or criterion bywhich the different families of mankindma}^ be discriminated the one from theother. The human skin also has its particu-lar features and peculiarities, unlike inthe different types of man- / ^ Color of tlie skin kind. This is said more atruetestofparticularly of the color. Of ^ ^™° ^ ^all the features with; respect to whichmen differ in physiological constitutionthe pigmentary character of the cuticleis perhaps the most marked, invariable,and persistent. This fact has been se-lected by many ethnographers as thebest consideration from which to framea scheme of division for the humanspecies. It is found that the differentraces have different colored skins; thata given race is sufficiently uniform in itshue; that the color
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