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types occur among- the Indians, but the wliole number might reveal move 

 of other tj'pes. If one may reason from so small a number, and the 

 purity of ear type and physical type make it justifiable, there appear to 

 be Europeans under brown skins among the Indians, and occasionally a 

 Malay is found. The brown skin could be due to implantation of the 

 European on the Negrito and jxn-sistence of the brown color Ijy selection 

 aided by the tropical sun ; the European traits to early prehistoric 

 migrations of "white men from Europe. The mingling of the European 

 and Negrito resulted in the retention of useful characters, the color of 

 the Negrito, and the form of the European. 



FEJLVLE FILIPINO EABS. 



1'he difficulty of observing the ears of the women because of the hair 

 renders the collection of data limited and not easj^, therefore only 114 

 individuals are noted. 



Adult female Filipino ears. 





Negroid 



48 



Malay 



18 



Chinese [Siib-Noitliern [ 



16 



Cro-Magnon 



16 



Igorot 



14 



B. B. B. 



10 



Alpine 



7 



Iberian 







Others 



15 



Total 144 ■ 



The female ear is esentially long, longer than that of the male, and 

 the lobe is more pendent. There are 56 long ears and 35 short ears 

 among the women, besides the Negroid ears Avhich are longer for the 

 women than for the men. Absence of the Iberian ear may be significant, 

 or it may be because so few individuals were observed. The accumulated 

 evidence indicates that some of the precursors of the present Filipinos 

 were long eared and the long-eared pirecursors were Mongolians and 

 Europeans. The Cro-Magnon, the Sub-Northern, the Igorot, the B. B. B. 

 ears are long ears; the Malay and the Iberian are short ears, also the 

 Alpine and Negroid. If the women represent the primary stocks and 

 the men represent the invaders, then the primary stocks had less Ibei-ian 

 and Alpine, more Negroid and Cro-Magnon than the invaders, and 

 Iberian and Alpine ears are more recent grafts on the Filipino than 

 Negroid and Cro-Magnon. In other words, there were more Negroid 

 and Cro-Magnon elements among the peoples of the Philippines before 

 the Spanish came, and the Spanish introduced among the Filipinos a 

 greater proportion of Alpine and Iberian than had previously existed. 



