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greatly changed conditions of life which have come about during the last 

 century. 



After all this suggestion, which a study of the head height presses upon 

 us, is one which many have held for a long time. If we accept it I fear 

 that many of the sentimental attractions of British Anthropology will 

 be lessened, since there will be greater difficulty in determining whether 

 the modern Englishman has more Saxon, Neolithic, Alpine, or Iron Age 

 blood in his veins ; and we must realise that he is becoming an individual 

 who could not be formed by any possible combination of these stocks 

 without the aid of external influences. Heredity alone, therefore, will 

 not account for the Englishman of the future. 



