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that whicli assumes a double pithecoid root for tlie human race, 

 namely, an Asiatic and an African root. For it is a very remark- 

 able fact, that the African man-like apes (goriUa and chim- 

 panzee) are characterized by a distinctly long-headed, or 

 dolichocephalous, form of skuU, like the human species peculiar 

 to Africa (Hottentots, Caffres, Negroes, Nubians). On the other 

 hand, the Asiatic man-like apes (especially the small and largf^ 

 orang), by their distinct, short-headed, or brachycephalous, form 

 of skull agree with human species especially characteristic of 

 Asia (Mongols and Malays). Hence, one might be tempted to 

 derive the latter (the Asiatic man-like apes and primaeval men) 

 from a common form of brachycephalous ape, and the former 

 (the African pian-like apes and primaeval men) from a common 

 dolichocephalous form of ape. 



In any case, tropical Africa and southern Asia (and between 

 fchem Lemuria, which formerly connected them) are those 

 portions of the earth which deserve the first consideration in 

 the discussion as to the primaeval home of the human race ; 

 America and Australia are, on the other hand, entirely excluded 

 from it. Even Europe (which is in fact but a western peninsula 

 of Asia) is scarcely of any importance in regard to the " Paradise 

 question." 



It is self-evident that the migrations of the different human 

 species from their primseval home, and their geographical distri- 

 bution, could on our Plate XV. be indicated only in a very 

 general way, and in the roughest lines. The numerous migrations 

 of the many branches and tribes in all directions, as well as the 

 very important re-migrations, had to be entirely disregarded. In 

 order to make these latter in some degree clear, our knowledge 

 would, in the first place, need to be much more complete, and 

 secondly, we should have to make use of an atlas with a number 

 of plates showrug the various migrations. Our Plate XV. claims 

 no more than to indicate, in a very general way, the approximate 

 geographical dispersion of the twelve human species as it existed 

 in the fifteenth century (before the general diffusion of the Indo- 

 Germanic race), and as it can be sketched out approximately. 



