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As results we have the following: the tritubercular dentition 
appears in II out of 25 Slavs; in 7 out of 23 Greeks and Ital- 
ians ; in 6 out of 22 Germans and Scandinavians; in 6 out of 8 
French; and in 20 out of 30 Europeo-Americans. The only 
great race which presents a similar high percentage of trituber- 
cular molars is the Esquimaux, where they occur in 21 out of 
30 dentitions. The tendency is most marked in Slavs, French, 
and Europeo-Americans, and is least marked in Greeks and 
Italians and in Germans. The former subrace stands in the 
series between the intermediate type of the North American 
Indians and the other Europeans. In the Germans the number 
with tubercles 4—34—3 is large. If these be added to the 
number with 4 — 3 — 3, we have 16 out of 22. 
It is important to remember in this connection that the dis- 
tinguished ethnologist and archzologist, W. Boyd Dawkins, 
affirms that the earliest inhabitants of Britain and some other 
parts of Europe were Esquimaux. He refers especially to the 
men of the caves, whose implements and arts he declares to be 
identical with those used by the Esquimaux of the present day.? 
As it is evident that the lemurine or tritubercular reversion 
commenced with the Esquimaux, it may be that in some in- 
stances at least its appearance in men of Anglo-Saxon and other 
European races is due to inheritance alone. But it is also rea- 
sonable to suppose that in this case as in other evolutions, the 
1 Perhaps improperly included in this table. 
2 Early Man in Britain, 1880, p. 233. 
