OUR FACE FROM FISH TO MAN 



might look strange to us, others would remind us 

 at least of certain types we had seen in our own 

 times. 



In short, the only conservative prediction to 

 make is that the people a million years from now 

 may be far less unlike ourselves than we had at 

 first imagined. But as the determination of the 

 dominant type of human face in the remote future 

 will depend partly upon unpredictable economic 

 and political movements and upon the success in 

 spreading and enforcing eugenic principles, proph- 

 ecy of any kind is obviously rash. 



If, as many geologists suspect, we are now living 

 in an interglacial period and the continental ice- 

 sheet again covers the northern parts of Europe 

 and North America, then a large part of the white 

 population may be driven to the southern United 

 States and Mexico, with consequent tendency to 

 absorb the more or less colored strains of those 

 regions; but on the other hand, many of the white 

 race may persist along the southern borders of the 

 glaciers. Such speculation is only excusable in 

 order to make the point that prediction of the 

 distant future is far less reliable than deciphering 



the remote past. 



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