HUMAN RACES 



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recent and smaller element of the true tall negro. Anthropo- 

 logical knowledge of the Melanesians is as yet far from as 

 comprehensive or satisfactory as is needed. 



WHITES 



Fig. 2. 



The Polynesians, though also of a mixed origin, constitute 

 a fairly well-defined secondary race. They show clear marks 

 of a large caucassoid, a small mongoloid (Malay?), and a 

 still smaller negroid (Negrito?) element in their composition. 

 In Hawaii there is also some late admixture with the tall 

 negro, and throughout there is considerable recent introduc- 

 tion of white blood. 



The Semimongoloids {Finno-Ugrian or Ural-Altaic peo- 

 ples), occupied sparsely, until the tenth century a.d., a 

 vast territory between true whites and the true Mongoloids, 

 taking in most of European Russia and the large parts of 

 Siberia and central Asia. They embraced the original 

 Finnish tribes along the Baltic, the old natives of the Volga, 

 the Huns, possibly the original Bulgars, the Tartars, and 

 various more or less nomadic "Turanian" or "Turcic" 

 units in Siberia and the Turkestans. According to various 

 indications they possibly included, also, the original Koreans, 



