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non-mongoloid features, 1 but this does not enlighten us 

 about the origin of the most important stock for the 

 Asiatic continent, which is precisely HOMO Asiaticus (L.), 

 or Homo oriental-is. 



To go further back as Klaatsch did with that futile 

 hypothesis which Keith has called pan -anthropoid, 2 some- 

 what in derision, is not our task. 



Let us content ourselves therefore, necessarily, with 

 the present data arid appreciate them as already done by 

 De Quatrefages from a purely systematic point of view. 

 Moreover, we believe that the human fossils of Europe 

 appertain to another cycle of migrations, anterior to those 

 here considered. 



The characters of H. Asiaticus have been given by a 

 large number of authors. Biasutti, last and most com- 

 plete of all, mentions : 3 leiotrichy, brachyskelic (thick 

 and short) somatic proportions, Mongolian eye, and 

 characteristic flatness of face, which together with the 

 projection of the zigomatic bones constitute the Mongo- 

 lian face. One may say that H. Asiaticus is recognised 

 by the face : "it represents a low relief in all its parts : 

 the slightly retreating forehead passes without the relief 

 of superciliary arches on to the medium facial plain where 

 the long nasal bones, narrow and flat, are inserted without 

 depressions at the roots, while the large zigomatic bones 

 protrude forward and beyond ; so that the nasal dorsum 

 emerges little from the cheeks which are large and full ; 

 the eyes with their Mongolian fold are at the surface of 

 the head ; alveolar prognathism is wanting (at least in the 



1 SEBGI (G.), Dalle esplorazioni del Turkestan " Atti Soc. Rom. Antrop." xiii, 

 1907, fasc. Ill, fig. 2, etc. ? also of the same author, Europa, Turin, 1908, pp. 431 ff. 



2 KEITH (A.), Klaatsch's Theory of the Descent, of Man, Nature, Ixxv, Febr. 1(5, 

 1911, pp. 508-510. 



3 BIASUTTI (R.), Studi sulla distributions dei caratteri e dei tipi antropologici. 

 " Memorie Geografiche." (Suppl. " Riv, Geogr. Ital "), 1912, N. 18, Florence, pp. 121 

 et seq. 



