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some of the individuals possessed hair presumably 

 of the European type, but others had a " tightly- 

 curled, short, woolly hair of the negro type." The 

 facial features of these latter individuals were not in 

 the least negroid. A tradition in the family attributes 

 the woolly hair to a Mexican ancestor several genera- 

 tions back. We may assume it as probable that 

 this ancestor was of the negroid race. If this is so 

 we have a clean segregation of European facial 

 characters from negroid ones, for none of the present 

 family, thirty-six in number, manifest the least 

 negroid trait. But in the random segregation of the 

 various negroid and European characters that oc- 

 curred in the sex-cells of this Mexican ancestry, 

 negroid hair became associated with European facial 

 characters. And apparently, the European alter- 

 native characters 'being recessive, once the European 

 facial characteristics had been extracted they would 

 henceforth breed true. Hence in none of the offspring 

 that have descended from a Mexican ancestor who 

 had European features but negroid hair, do we 

 expect any negroid facial characters to reappear. 

 But the negroid hair being a dominant character, 

 this Mexican individual who bore it may also bear in 

 his sex-cells the European type of hair as a recessive 

 character. We should then expect to see both the 

 negroid and European hair separate out in the 

 succeeding generations, and be borne by separate 

 individuals. And the curliness and woolliness must, 

 on the whole, be as curly and woolly in one individual 

 as another. And such appears to be the case in 



