39 6 THE ANIMALS AND MAN 



For example, all the various peoples and stocks and branches 

 of the American race agree in having coffee-colored skin, 

 straight or wavy hair and medium nose. This race has 

 great unity of type although it ranges over two continents 

 from the Arctic to the Antarctic regions. The most developed 

 early peoples of the race lived in Mexico and Peru; the 

 lowest lived and still live in Patagonia. 



All the white peoples belong to the Caucasic or Caucasian 

 race. The name is not a good one because it suggests an 



origin in the Caucasus, which 

 it did not have. The Ameri- 

 can ethnologist Brinton 

 maintains that it undoubted- 

 ly arose in Southern Europe 

 and Northern Africa. In- 

 deed these two regions were 

 probably one in early Qua- 

 ternary times. And he be- 

 lieves that the present types 

 of the race have come from 

 this region rather than, as 

 more popularly thought, from 

 FIG. 199. Head of Orion, Negrito- Asia. However, the princi- 



Papuan of Tidore. Cast now in pal historic nations of Ell- 

 the Paris Museum of Natural His- ^ descended from 



tory. (After Quatrefages.) 



Aryan stock, which most 



ethnologists believed to have migrated into Europe from Asia. 

 But Brinton denies even this, holding that the Aryan an- 

 cestors of the European races originated in Europe itself. 

 The white race of America is, of course, the off-shoot by 

 direct immigration and descent of the historic European 

 races. 



The Mongolic or Asian race includes a great many peoples 

 represented by an enormous number of individuals all 

 characterized by their yellowish skin color, straight coarse 



