THE PRESENT RACIAL GEOGR.4PHY OF EUROPE 



In Central France is a small area where descendants of the great prehistoric Cro-Magnon 

 race are supposed still to survive; but apart from this the region above shown is almost 

 exclusively occvipicd by three great races, whose distribution is roughly shown by the 

 shading, which is made particularly heavy in the places where the race is purest or 

 most numerous. Unfortunately, the map does not show Scandinavia and the northern 

 part of the German Empire, where the Nordic race, "The Great Race," as Mr. Grant 

 calls it, is purest and most predominant. From H. F. Osborn, Men of the Old Stone 

 Age (New York, 1915). (Fig. 16.) 



Himalayas were j^robaljly its center of 

 original evolution and radiation, and 

 its Asiatic members constitute a distinct 

 subdivision, the Armenoids. 



"The Alpine race is distinguished by 

 a round face and correspondingly round 

 skull which in the true Armenians has 

 a peculiar, sugarloaf shape, a character 

 which can Vjc easily recognized." The 

 Alpines must not be confounded with 

 the slit-eyed Mongols who center in 

 Tibet and the steppes of north Asia. 

 They are "of medium height and sturdy 

 build, both as to skeleton and muscles. 



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The coloration of Vooth hair and eyes 

 was originalh' very dark and still tends 

 strongly in that direction, but many 

 light-colored eyes, especially gray, are 

 now found in the Alpine populations of 

 western Europe. 



"This race in its final ex])ansion far 

 to the northwest, ultimately reached 

 Norway, Denmark and Holland, and 

 l)lanted among the dolichocei)halic na- 

 tives small colonies of round sktills, 

 which still exist. When this invasion 

 reached the extreme northwest of 

 luirope its energy was spent, and the 



