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2. The Mongolian, or yellow-skinned, or Asiatic, races and tribes : 

 hair black and straight ; eyes dark, with characteristic eyelids ; gener- 

 ally shorter than the Caucasians ; rather high cheek bones and broad 

 skull. The Chinese and Japanese are the chief representatives. Of 

 very ancient civilization, that seems to have stagnated for a long time r . 

 probably likely to play a larger share in world affairs in the future. 



3. The American, or red-skinned, races and tribes : in many 

 respects the North American Indians resemble the Mongolians. The 

 Eskimos and certain Siberian tribes show remarkable resemblances 

 to both groups. Partly because of the treatment to which they were 

 subjected, and partly because of their racial characteristics, these 

 people are of diminishing importance in the world. 



4 and 5. The Negroid, or black-skinned, races and tribes : hair 

 black and woolly, or frizzled ; eyes dark ; nose broad. The African, 

 or Ethiopian, blacks differ in many ways from the Melanesian and 

 Australian blacks. Indeed, but for the color of the skin they should 

 be put into as distinct groups as the Chinese and the Irish, for 

 example. Huxley, who lumps the red-skinned and the yellow-skinned 

 peoples into one race, nevertheless makes two races of the Australian 

 and Melanesian blacks, on the one hand, and the African blacks, on 

 the other. 



