VIII 



THE HUMAN KACES 



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Sergi's book, and merely reproduce his classification with a few 

 illustrations showing the single human groups. 



(1) Palaeanthropus : Extinct European genus ; with the species 

 of European Palaeanthropus (Neander Valley, Krapiniense, 

 Heidelberg). 



(2) Archaeanthropus : Another extinct genus found in South 

 America (Patagonia) ; with the species A. del Pampa. 



(3) Notanthropus (man of the south) : Original genus of the 

 African continent (Figs. 



141 to 149). Its char- 

 acteristics are : bimor- 

 phous or elongated skull 

 (dolichornorphous) in the 

 species over and about 

 average height ; short and 

 rounded (brachycephalic 

 or niesocephalic) in the 

 pigmies; the face varies 

 in length and width, is 

 sometimes ortognathous, 

 sometimes prognathous, 

 small or flat-nosed ; the 

 eyes are horizontal with 

 full oval eyelids ; the iris 

 varies in colour ; the hair is 

 ciniotrichic or ulotrichic ; 

 white or coloured skin; 

 hair sometimes abundant, 

 sometimes scanty ; height 

 variable. This genus 

 includes the following 

 species : (a) Eurafricanus 

 (comprising groups in- 

 habiting Africa and 

 Europe, amongst them) ; 

 Northern, Mediterranean, 

 African, Dravidian, 

 Polynesian, Australian, 

 and the Todi-Ainus) ; (V) Afris (comprising the varieties : Ethi- 

 opian, Negro, Silvestrian African, Libyan); and finally (c) the 

 species Austral (comprising the variety known as pigmies). 



(4) Heoanthropus (man of the east) : A genus originating in the 

 continent of Asia (Figs. 150 to 155). Their characteristics are: 

 bimorphous skull (dolicho- and brachymorphous) ; broad, short 

 face, almost always ortognathous, short, depressed nose ; Asiatic 

 (Mongolian) eye, narrow eyelid, tending to be triangular in 

 shape; the plica semilunaris very frequent; yellow skin; hair 



Fit;. 157. Indian boy from Gran Ciaco, Paraguay. 

 (Hesperanthropus Colunibi paraguayensis). (G. Sergi.) 



