HUMAN LIFE 



kinds or races of man. The native 

 Australians, the Veddahs of Ceylon, the 

 Ainos of Japan, the Bushmen of Central 

 Africa and several other scattered similar 

 small groups do represent in their physical 

 structure, mental capacity and general 

 culture more primitive stages in human 

 evolution than those represented by the 

 larger Caucasian, Mongolian, Negro and 

 Polynesian groups that comprise the 

 great majority of living men. 



In comparing the physical and men 

 tal character and the culture of these 

 living primitive types with the character 

 and culture of various extinct types of 

 men, as indicated by their recovered 

 bones and articles of handiwork, the 

 anthropologist finds such similarities that 

 he can refer with some confidence to 

 these living primitive types as paralleling 

 in many characteristics some of the more 

 recent types of prehistoric man. He has 

 not yet found alive that missing link 

 between man and the anthropoids which 

 some anthropologists have fondly im- 



