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the negro type to Ultra-Saharal Africa, and the 

 peculiar character of the population of Central and 

 South America, are facts which bear strongly in 

 favour of the conclusion that the causes which 

 have influenced the distribution of mammals in 

 general have powerfully affected that of man. 



Let it be supposed that the human remains 

 from the caves of the Neanderthal and of Spy 

 represent the race, or one of the races, of men who 

 inhabited Europe in the quaternary epoch, can 

 any connection be traced between it and existing 

 races? That is to say, do any of them exhibit 

 characters approximating those of the Spy men 

 or other examples of the Neanderthaloid race? 

 Put in the latter form, I think that the question 

 may be safely answered in the affirmative. Skulls 

 do occasionally approach the Neanderthaloid type, 

 among both the brunet and the blond long-head 

 races. For the former, I pointed out the resem- 

 blance, long ago, in some of the Irish river-bed 

 skulls. For the latter, evidence of various kinds 

 may be adduced; but I prefer to cite the author- 

 ity of one of the most accomplished and cautious 

 of living anthropologists. Professor Yirchow was 

 led, by historical considerations, to think that the 

 Teutonic type, if it still remained pure and Tin- 

 defiled anywhere, should be discoverable among 

 the Frisians, in their ancient island homes on the 

 North German coast, remote from the great move- 

 ments of nations. In their tall stature and blond 



