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and nose breadth that show such great variability in the 

 mulattoes. Fischer also refers to the low variabihty in the 

 bastards of South Africa and Rodenwaldt is surprised by 

 the same phenomenon in the hybrids of Kisar. Here, again, 

 the disappointment is perhaps due to expecting a generally 

 greater variability of hybrids. The greater variabihty of the 

 hybrid is to be found only in those traits, if any, which are 

 strikingly dissimilar in the parental stocks. 



As a result of this rapid survey of race crossing we are 

 led to the conckision that there is no universal rule as to the 

 physical or social consequences of race crossing. Sometimes 

 the progeny are superior to, sometimes equal to, sometimes 

 inferior to the parental stocks. In the absence of any uniform 

 rule as to the consequences of race crossing and in view of the 

 disharmony shown by many hybrids it is well to discourage 

 hybridization between extreme types, except in those cases 

 where, as in the Chinese-Hawaiian cross, it clearly produces 

 superior progeny. The negro-white and the Phihppino- 

 European crosses seem, on the other hand, of a type that 

 should be avoided. 



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