The Origin of RacesThe author presents his theory that early man, "Homo erectus," divided into five geographic races, or subspecies, which then separately evolved into "Homo sapiens." [He then] ... reviews some of the principles of evolution, describes the primates, and traces the origins and evolutionary progress of human descent. |
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THE PROBLEM OF RACIAL ORIGINS | 3 |
Transverse Sections of the Skulls of a Female | 11 |
PreWürm Fossil Man Remains from Europe | 25 |
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adult AJPA ancestors animals apes Asia Australian aborigines Australoid Australopithecines brachiating brain breadth brow ridges Bushmen canine Capoid Caucasoid Cave cent Chapelle aux Saints chimpanzee China cranial capacity culture cusps early Europe European evolution evolutionary evolved face facial flatness fauna female femur Ferrassie flake fossil frontal genes gorilla grade hominid Homo erectus Homo sapiens human incisors Indians indicate Interglacial Java Koenigswald Krapina Kromdraai La Ferrassie Leakey living Lower Pleistocene Makapansgat male mammals mandible maxilla Meganthropus Middle Pleistocene modern Mongoloid muscles Neanderthal Negritos Negroes North occipital Old World monkeys Olduvai orbits palate parietal Pithecanthropus populations premolar primates probably Proconsul Pygmies races racial range region resembles robustus Sinanthropus skeleton Skhul skull Solo South Africa species specimens Sterkfontein subspecies Swartkrans taurodont teeth Telanthropus Ternefine third molar thropus tion tooth Trinil Upper Paleolithic Upper Pleistocene Wadjak Weidenreich Würm