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nosed, Black races (Australians, Negroes, Tasmanians, Negritos). 

 Closely connected with the question of the classification of 

 the genus man is that of his origin a question which is being 

 much discussed at the present time, but is still far from being 

 finally and definitely solved. The researches made with a 

 view to the solution of this supreme problem have, however, 

 yielded important results : they proved the existence of extremely 

 ancient human skeletons, which, as we have already seen, show 

 morphological characteristics very different from those of the 



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FIG. 153. Tibetan women,' Heoanthropus orientalis tibetanus). (G. Sergi.) 



skeleton of modern man ; hence in recent classifications it has 

 been thought necessary to assign a place to the extinct human 

 races. Of recent classifications of the genus man, we will mention 

 Haeckel's monogenetic (1908) and Sergi's poly genetic schemes. 



Haeckel, who had previously accepted the classification pro- 

 posed by Friedrich Miiller, suggests a provisional division of the 

 genus man into five species and twelve sub-species, as follows : 



(1) Homo primigenius (extinct species of the tertiary geological 

 age, originating in southern Asia) : He has left fossil remains in the 

 diluvial stratum in Europe (the Neander Valley, Spy, etc.) and 

 in certain Australian strata (Palinander). 



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