Category: Archaeology & Anthropology
Origin of Man--In what parts of the Earth did he first appear?--Unity of Mankind, evidence in support--What is understood by species in Natural History--Man forms but one species, with its varieties or kinds--Classification of the Human Race 1
Origin of Man--In what parts of the Earth did he first appear?--Unity of Mankind, evidence in support--What is understood by species in Natural History--Man forms but one specie...
2. CHAPTER II.--General characteristics of the human race--Organiccharacteristics--Senses and the nervous system--Height--Skeleton-- Cranium and face--Colour of the skin--Physiological functions-- Intellectual characteristics--Properties of hu...
3. CHAPTER I.4. CHAPTER II.5. CHAPTER I.6. CHAPTER II.7. CHAPTER III.8. CHAPTER III.9. CHAPTER I.10. CHAPTER II.11. CHAPTER I.12. CHAPTER II.1.--MEN AND WOMEN OF ANATOLIA 5 2.--SAMOIEDES OF THE NORTH CAPE 7 WHITE OR CAUCASIAN RACE: SCANDINAVIAN, GREEK 3.--WAKE OF ICELANDIC PEASANTS IN A BARN 42 4.--WOMEN OF STAVANGER...
13. CHAPTER I.Definition of Man--How he differs from other Animals--Origin of Man--In what parts of the Earth did he first appear?--Unity of Mankind, evidence in support--What is understood b...
14. CHAPTER II.General characteristics of the human race--Organic characteristics-- Senses and the nervous system--Height--Skeleton--Cranium and face-- Colour of the skin--Physiological functi...
15. CHAPTER I.Proceeding upon considerations grounded chiefly upon language, we distinguish among the peoples forming the European branch, three great families: the _Teutonic_, _Latin_ and _S...
16. CHAPTER II.Cuvier has thought fit to give the name of Aramean (derived from the ancient appellation of Syria) to the race of people who inhabit the south-west of Asia and the north of Afri...
17. CHAPTER I.The Hyperborean branch is composed of the various races inhabiting the districts in the vicinity of the North Pole, small in stature and possessing the principal characteristics...
18. CHAPTER II.The peoples belonging to this ethnologic branch exhibit the characteristics of the Yellow Race in the most prominent manner. They are fond of a nomadic life, and have at differe...
19. CHAPTER III.The nations belonging to the Sinaic branch (from the Latin _Sinæ_, Chinese) have not the features of the Yellow Race so well defined as those belonging to the Mongolian branch....
20. CHAPTER I.The peoples composing the Hindoo branch have been frequently classed in the White Race. In fact, their shape, their language, and their institutions partly correspond to those o...
21. CHAPTER II.The African populations which we class with the Brown Race have a resemblance in the formation of the body to those of the White Race, but their skin is darker in colour, being...
22. CHAPTER III.This branch approaches closely to the Indo-Chinese. The races composing it are of medium height, regularly made and with well-proportioned limbs; their skin varies from an olive...
23. CHAPTER I.The nations of the southern branch of the Red Race have affinity to those of the Yellow Race. Their complexion, which is often yellowish or olive, is never so red as that of the...
24. CHAPTER II.The members of the _North American Branch_ present more decided differences among themselves than those in the southern division, so far as race is concerned, but their characte...
25. CHAPTER I.We shall notice three families in the _Western_ Branch of the Black Race, those of the Caffres, Hottentots, and Negroes. These general groups comprise an immense number of tribe...
26. CHAPTER II.The _Eastern Blacks_, who have also been called _Melanesians_ and _Oceanian Negroes_, inhabit the western part of Oceania and the south-east of Asia. Their complexion is very br...