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Central and Northern Asia, and its features are : 

 yellowish colour, long black straight hair, high cheek 

 bones, short nose, and, especially, slanting eye aper- 

 tures. The allied races are of immense extent and 

 the features in many considerably modified either by 

 variation or inter-crossing. The skulls in some of 

 these are extremely dolichocephalic. In Asia the 

 Mongoloid type is extended by the Japanese, 

 Chinese, Siamese ; in Europe its invasions are repre- 

 sented by the Turks, Finns, Lapps, and Hungarians. 

 The Malay race seems to be a branch of the Mongo- 

 loid, and extends over Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and 

 can be traced to New Zealand and throughout 

 Micronesia and Polynesia. It is supposed that the 

 Maoris and the islanders of the Pacific, differing con- 

 siderably from each other in characters, have arisen 

 chiefly from crossing between a race allied to the 

 Malays and the darker Melanesians. The inhabi- 

 tants of the whole of America, North and South, seem 

 to belong to one main type supposed to have been 

 derived from the Mongolian. The uniformity of the 

 American Indians, as compared with the diversity 

 of types in the Old World, is one of the most striking 

 facts in anthropology, and is most probably ex- 

 plained by the view that America was populated from 

 a single race, the Mongolian, from Asia, within a 

 period so comparatively recent that no great diver- 

 gence has been developed. Lastly, we have the white 

 men, whose home is chiefly in Europe, and who 

 include a great variety of subordinate types. 



