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Description:Excerpt from The People's Natural History, Vol. 5: Embracing Living Animals of the World and Living Races of Mankind; Africa, Europe, America The peoples of Africa include representatives of each of the three principal divisions of mankind. Africa is the main home of the Negro: its northern and north-eastern regions are occupied by members of the Caucasian group; while the third division, the Mongolian, is represented by the dominant people of Madagascar, who are Malays. To these three groups it is convenient to add a fourth for the Bushmen of South Africa and the pygmies of Equatorial Africa, whose exact relations are uncertain. The study of the African peoples is accordingly complicated, especially since difficulties are introduced by the scarcity of historical evidence, our comparative ignorance of important tribes, the wide extent of nomadism, the continual intermixture of alien races, and the destruction of tribes by war and famine. The typical members of the three groups show definite, distinctive characters. The broad-nosed, thick-lipped, curly-haired, dark-brown native of the Congo is unquestionably a Negro; the intellectual-looking, straight nosed, thin-lipped, small-chinned, long-haired Berber is as clearly a Caucasian; the Hova of Madagascar is as manifestly a Mongol. But the races as a whole have not kept true; the intermingling of the border tribes and intermarriage with slaves captured in war have resulted in the formation of intermediate races, whose characters are mixed. It is difficult, for example, to know whether the Waganda should be regarded as a Negro race which has been altered by Caucasian immigration, or as a Caucasian race altered by the absorption of Negro blood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The People's Natural History, Vol. 5: Embracing Living Animals of the World and Living Races of Mankind; Africa, Europe, America (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The People's Natural History, Vol. 5: Embracing Living Animals of the World and Living Races of Mankind; Africa, Europe, America (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Excerpt from The People's Natural History, Vol. 5: Embracing Living Animals of the World and Living Races of Mankind; Africa, Europe, America The peoples of Africa include representatives of each of the three principal divisions of mankind. Africa is the main home of the Negro: its northern and north-eastern regions are occupied by members of the Caucasian group; while the third division, the Mongolian, is represented by the dominant people of Madagascar, who are Malays. To these three groups it is convenient to add a fourth for the Bushmen of South Africa and the pygmies of Equatorial Africa, whose exact relations are uncertain. The study of the African peoples is accordingly complicated, especially since difficulties are introduced by the scarcity of historical evidence, our comparative ignorance of important tribes, the wide extent of nomadism, the continual intermixture of alien races, and the destruction of tribes by war and famine. The typical members of the three groups show definite, distinctive characters. The broad-nosed, thick-lipped, curly-haired, dark-brown native of the Congo is unquestionably a Negro; the intellectual-looking, straight nosed, thin-lipped, small-chinned, long-haired Berber is as clearly a Caucasian; the Hova of Madagascar is as manifestly a Mongol. But the races as a whole have not kept true; the intermingling of the border tribes and intermarriage with slaves captured in war have resulted in the formation of intermediate races, whose characters are mixed. It is difficult, for example, to know whether the Waganda should be regarded as a Negro race which has been altered by Caucasian immigration, or as a Caucasian race altered by the absorption of Negro blood. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The People's Natural History, Vol. 5: Embracing Living Animals of the World and Living Races of Mankind; Africa, Europe, America (Classic Reprint). To get started finding The People's Natural History, Vol. 5: Embracing Living Animals of the World and Living Races of Mankind; Africa, Europe, America (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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