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the palaeo-Asiatic or Americanoid, the Tungusic, the Aino, 

 the Khmer, etc., in Asia, and the Eskimoan, the Maya- 

 Toltecan, and the Lagoa Santa — Algonquian (or Uto- 



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Aztecan), etc., in America; and there are important nation- 

 alistic types such as that of the Chinese, Japanese, etc. 

 Much here remains to be cleared and defined through further 

 studies. 



The Negro stem occurs in two main races, the negroes 

 proper, and the pygmies, and the latter are divided into 

 three racial groups, namely the negrito, the negrillo, and the 

 Bushmen-Hottentots. 



An interesting question is which one of the two main 

 subdivisions of the negroid stem is the parental one. As there 

 are no indications of pygmies in the human ancestry, it 

 would seem that these short peoples are secondary; on the 

 other hand their marked subdivisions and the greater 



