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form. No attempt hcas been made to deal with the eye or the hair. 

 Little attention has been paid to genetics, in the belief that before 

 we can discover the biological techniques by which a set of variations 

 is inherited we should first describe the variations themselves. Since 

 blood groups are believed to be nonadaptive, they have been tempo- 

 rarily ignored. 



Since I started this racial heresy in 1946, when I wrote the first 

 draft of what was to be expanded into the book "Races," with the 

 help of Garn and Birdsell, many others who possess special technical 

 skills, and whose interests are focused in other than purely racial 

 channels, have been working on important aspects of the problem. 

 Garn is conducting experiments with metabolism and body heat at 

 the Fels Institute, Yellow Springs. Ancel Keys and Josef Brozek, 

 in Minneapolis, have independently studied the basic components of 

 tlie human body, with special emphasis on its fat content. Russell 

 Newman, Phillip Wedgewood, and Paul Baker have been devising 

 techniques for the same purpose in Lawrence, Mass., and conducting 

 interracial studies of physiological tolerance for the Armed Forces. 

 Various other Army and Air Force scientists, and their Canadian 

 colleagues, have been working on basic differences in anatomy and 

 physiology between Eskimos, Indians, Whites, and Negroes. 



Our subject is acquiring dignity, and results are being produced. 

 We are now on the road to learning the basic facts about race in man, 

 facts of which no one should be proud or ashamed. In an atom-age 

 world in which men of all races are coming into increasing contact 

 with one another on a basis of equality and cooperation, a knowledge 

 of what a wonderfully adaptive thing the human body is, is a much 

 healthier commodity than the recently traditional hide-race point 

 of view. 



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1939. •'Melanoid," a skin pigment. Science, vol. 90, No. 2330, suppl., p. 7. 

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1953. The effects of a hot-dry climate on gross morphology. Office of the 

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