96 THE PHYSICAL KINSHIP 



understanding, hiding in thickets and in the holes 

 of the earth, feeding on roots and fruits, and con- 

 tending doubtfully with the species around them 

 for food and existence. 



From the ' Alali ' — the speechless ape-men — we 

 may imagine the true men to have evolved — talk- 

 ing men, men with erect posture and mature 

 brain and larynx, the woolly-haired ulotrichi and 

 the straight-haired lissotrichi. There are four 

 existing species of woolly-haired men : the Papuans 

 of New Guinea and Melanesia, and the Hotten- 

 tots, Caffres, and Negroes of southern, equatorial, 

 and north central Africa respectively. They all 

 have long heads, slanting teeth, very dark skin, 

 and black, bushy hair, each individual hair in 

 cross-section being flat or oval in shape. In the 

 straight-haired races the skin is much fairer than 

 in the woolly-haired races, being seldom darker than 

 brown, and each individual hair in cross-section is 

 round like the cross-section of a cylinder. The 

 principal species of straight-haired men are the 

 sea-roving Malays of the East Indies and the 

 Pacific, the round-faced Mongols of eastern and 

 northern Asia, the aboriginal Americans of the 

 western hemisphere, and the incomparable Aryans, 

 including the ancient Greeks and Romans and the 

 modern peoples of India, Persia, and Europe. 



Man is to-day the pre-eminent animal of the 

 planet. The successive ascendancies of the Worm, 

 the Mollusk, the Crustacean, the Fish, the Reptile, 

 and the Mammal, are followed triumphantly by 

 the ascendancy of the Children of the Ape. 



