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already been shown that this non-Jewish type found amongst Jews 

 is recessive to the typically Jewish, whereas the German or Teutonic 

 type is undoubtedly dominant ; hence, if the non-Jewish type is 

 Amoritic, then it is quite certain that the Araorites were not Germanic. 

 Conversely if it is not derived from the Amorites, it is at least quite 

 certain that it cannot be Teutonic in origin. 



In marriages between Sephardic Jews of a markedly southern 

 European or Spanish type and Ashkenazic Jews, the former's facial 

 characteristics seem always to be dominant. This fact, when one 

 remembers the infusion of Iberian blood in the Sephardim already 

 referred to, is not indeed surprising. 



In a previous paragraph, it was stated that many people regarded 

 the Jewish expression as the result of age-long homelessness and 

 persecution. Whether it is meant that this expression is acquired in 

 the life of the individual or whether it is an example of the heredity 

 of an acquired character, is not decisively stated. My results would 

 seem to throw some light on this point. In the first instance, I have 

 frequently seen new-born babies with an unmistakably Jewish cast of 

 feature, and secondly, in those families arising from the mating of 

 hybrid and Jew where the children are brought up in a Jewish home 

 with Jewish surroundings, half the children are Jewish-looking, and 

 half are non-Jewish, a fact which the inheritance of an acquired 

 character fails to explain. Again, if the expression is the result of 

 landlessness and the tausend-jdhrigen Schmerz, is it not peculiar that 

 of two children born of the same parents and reared in the same home, 

 one should have it and the other not ? I think it is clear, therefore, 

 that this Jewish facial expression is a fundamental character, and it 

 is necessary to trace, if we can, its origin. All observers are agreed 

 that it cannot be described as Semitic. It is seen in, but is not the 

 peculiar property of the Armenians who certainly resemble the Jews 

 and who probably have in some degree a common ancestry. Is it perhaps 

 possible that this peculiar facial type has arisen from the fusion of 

 characters derived from two or more of the original races from which 

 the Jews sprang ? 



The experiments of Bateson and others(2) with the sweet pea, 

 paralleled as they have been in the animal world, are not unsuggestive 

 in this respect. On mating together two apparently similar but really 

 distinct white sweet peas, they obtained the common purple pea. When 

 this latter was bred inter se, it gave rise to a series of purples, reds 

 and whites. Of each of these classes, some, when self-fertilised, bred 



