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from his earlier position on sexual selection. 

 However, this has not prevented others from 

 continuing to quote his discarded views — 

 innocently, of course. 



Havelock EUis (i8) and G. Stanley Hall (19) 

 have applied the idea of a " race-type " female 

 with peculiar insistence to the human race. 

 Goodale has finally killed the bird evidence 

 upon which earlier workers so largely founded 

 this doctrine, by showing that the " race type " 

 toward which birds tend unless inhibited by 

 the female ovarian secretion is the male type, 

 not the female. There is a great difference in 

 the way the internal secretions act in birds and 

 in man, as will be pointed out later. It is so 

 important that such a major point as general 

 variability must be supported and corroborated 

 by mammahan evidence to prove anything posi- 

 tively for man. As already noted, the statistical 

 studies of Pearson and Mrs. HoUingworth et 

 al. have yielded uniformly negative results. 



In the utilization of data gathered from non- 

 human species, certain differences in the systems 

 of internal secretion must be taken into account. 

 Birds differ from the human species as to internal 

 secretory action in two vital particulars : (a) 

 In the higher mammals, sex depends upon a 

 " complex " of all the glands interacting, instead 

 of upon the sex glands alone as in birds ; (b) 

 The male bird instead of the female is homo- 



