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growth poor or scanty, straight and black ; height variable. It 

 comprises the species : (a) the Arctic peoples (including Finns, 

 Siamese, Malays); (Z>) Eur-asiatics (or the inhabitant of Europe and 

 Asia, including Italians, French, Germanic, Balcan, Russian) ; (c) 

 Orientals (including Japanese, sub-Malay, Tibetan). 



(5) Hesperanthropus (man of the west) : Genus originating in 







FIG. 158. Tuelco of Patagonia (Hesperanthropus patagonicus). (G. Sergi.) 



the American continent (Figs. 156 to 158). Its characteristics are : 

 polymorphous skull ; face usually broad, nose generally leptomeso- 

 rhinous. Eed, russet, or chocolate-coloured skin ; eyes horizontal 

 (occasionally oblique) and dark; smooth, stiff, black hair, occasionally 

 wavy, little or no hair on the rest of the body. It comprises two 

 species, the first embracing the largest number of varieties (Eskimo, 

 natives of Planitia, Sonora, the Amazon, Paraguay, the Andes) ; 

 the second represented by the Patagonians. 



