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suggesting the skull of an Ethiopian. It is, however, more 

 like that of recent man than is the Neanderthal skull. 



The comparison of the different races of men through the 

 methods of the science of ethnology throws much light on the 

 relations of the races to one another, but casts little light on 

 the origin of the genus Homo. This study considerably in- 

 creases the number of primitive races beyond the three stems 

 usually recognized or the four named by Linnaeus. The form 

 of the skull, the color of the skin, the character of the hair, and 

 the traits of language have given rise to the technical nomen- 

 clature of numerous more or less well-defined groups. These 



FIG. 296. Remains of the Neanderthal man in the Provincial Museum at Bonn. 

 (From Weltall u. Menschheit.) 



races of men limited by geographical segregation run more or 

 less distinctly parallel to the races or geographical subspecies 

 within widely distributed species of animals. Our knowledge 

 of the origin of man as derived from ethnology is thus summed 

 up by Huxley: "So far as the light is bright it shows him sub- 



