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also by the few examples of curly hair which are found 

 among them. 1 



Amongst the Hebrews also curly hair appears fairly 

 frequent and it is sometimes accompanied by thick lips, 

 although the Hebrews like the Arabs came originally 

 from the north. But they descended so far towards the 

 south as to meet those groups of dark natives, negritoids 

 and: others, which at that time extended from the moun- 

 tains of Elam to those of Abyssinia and, by crossing with 

 these, some have taken some somatic characters from 

 them, as somatic characters are as is known transmis- 

 sible separately. 2 Chronologically the descent of the Proto- 

 Semites towards the equator must be placed at the same 

 epoch as the peopling of Northern Africa by the Whites. 



According to my opinion Africa did not intervene at 

 all in peopling Asia. We ha ye already said that accord- 

 ing to Matthew's hypothesis successive waves left an 

 anthropogenic centre situated in Central Asia, but this 

 anthropogenic centre is in my opinion the leucodermic 

 one. 1 place farther south the anthropogenic area of the 

 more or less dark equatorial races, who are not necessarily 

 all dolichocephalic : the same twofold division can be 

 proved to exist, as among the Leucoderms and the 

 Xanthoderms, so also in the other, more or less Melano- 

 chroid stock. I do not hold the preconception of Virchow 

 of having water-tight compartments of the dolicho- 

 cephals and brachycephals, adopted by the (Italian; poly- 

 genist anthropologists, as the greatest argument against 

 the one origin for them both, which was far from the 

 thoughts of Virchow himself. On the other hand, Sergi 

 himself has not been able to unite together all the brachy- 

 cephals of this world, which signifies that, according to 



1 For all these bbrnatic ccinpai it ons c/. GltJVFSfDA-RuGGERl (V.), Affinita 

 pologdche fra Etiopici e A^abi meridiavuli. '' Aiinnaiio K. Istituto Orient-ale <li 

 Napoli," anno accadem. 3919-20. 



2 Cf. GlUFrKIDA-Kl'GGERI (V.), L'ttt .W uttualt", op. cit.. CMp. 1, 



