AS THE BIOLOGIST SEES IT 



bears. Our attempts at classifying the 

 bears, you know, are attended by a good 

 deal of discussion as to whether some of 

 the different kinds are just different races 

 or varieties of one species or whether 

 they truly represent different species. As 

 a matter of fact, I suppose this doesn t 

 much worry the bears; it only worries the 

 scientists. 



There is also some suggestive evidence 

 about man s position in Nature to be 

 derived from the facts of the geographical 

 distribution of his different races. The 

 suggestiveness comes from the interesting 

 resemblance of the status of this distribu 

 tion to that obtaining generally among 

 the higher vertebrates. Dr. J. C. Mer- 

 riam, the distinguished paleontologist and 

 student of the history of the human 

 species, has especially stressed this fact 

 and its significance. Just as the distribu 

 tion of the members of a group of mam 

 mals or birds indicates in fairly clear 

 outlines a classification of these members 

 such as would be made on a basis of their 

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