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THE VARIETIES OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. 



XVI. Scopeloides. — A common form in Santos, and should be 

 more sought after in Italy. 



Fig. 51.— Isobathyplatyc. Siculus. 



In ending this description of subvarieties, at present limited to 

 those of the sixteen human varieties (and which I consider incom- 

 plete in number, just as I have considered incomplete the number 

 of varieties of the Mediterranean and Kourgans of Russia, where 

 I have found the varieties described), I should add, in order to 

 complete the picture of subvarieties, another characteristic of 

 classification, of which I have above spoken, the volume of the 

 cranium. 



As I have said, what is well known in regard to other animals 

 occurs in man, that large and small varieties are found, both in 

 stature and in the volume of the cranium, and these differences in 

 size and volume are not indications of functional superiority or of 

 priority. The functions of the brain of 1200 gr. can be just as 

 perfect as those of a brain of 1600 gr., and it is known that not all 

 large and voluminous brains are those of great men, nor are those 

 of inferior or commonplace human types small. I have found 

 ellipsoids, cuboids, ovoids, pentagonoids, platycephali, trapezoids, 

 large, medium, and small, with complete and perfect structures 

 in the large as well as in the small and microcephalic varie- 

 ties; for this reason I have thought it wise to consider types of 

 different volume or cranial capacity as subvarieties, and not to 

 confuse the capacity of one with another. 



