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significant, when considered in connection with the fact that 

 many other somatic characteristics, such as stature and head- 

 form of the Jews do greatly correspond to the type of their non- 

 Jewish neighbors. 



Typical representatives of a race show a constant interrela- 

 tion between the color of their hair and that of their eyes ; for 

 example, in the blond northern races their light hair is usually 

 accompanied by blue eyes. Individuals who do not exhibit 

 such interrelation, having dark eyes with fair hair, or the re- 

 verse, are considered as '* mixed types." From the figures in 

 the preceding tables we find that in men 86.89 percent had dark 

 hair (including red in this group) and 55.05 percent had dark 

 eyes. It should therefore be expected that the combination of 

 dark hair and dark eyes in the same individuals should occur 

 according to the formula, 88.89 x 55-05 -^ 100 =47. 83 percent 

 of the individuals observed. Fair types would be expected on 

 the same principle to occur in (13. 11 X 44.95-^-100=) 5.89 

 percent of Jews. In Jewesses these figures are expected to be 

 52.18 percent of brunettes, and 5.85 percent blonds. Empiri- 

 cally however we found these types to be distributed in the fol- 

 lowing proportions : 



Table XLVII. 



Types of Pigmentation in 4,235 Jews. 



Type. 



Jews. 



Jewesses. 



Number. 



Percent. 



Number. 



Percent. 



Brunette 



1,495 



283 



1,004 



52.62 

 10.42 

 36.96 



865 

 156 

 496 



1,519 



56-94 

 10.27 



32-79 



Blond 



Mixed 





Total 



2,716 



100.00 



100.00 







From this table we find that in 52.62 percent of all Jews ob- 

 served both hair and eyes were dark ; the combination of fair 

 hair and eyes was observed in 10.42 percent of Jews and 10.27 

 percent of Jewesses. The brunette type which is considered 

 characteristic of the Jews, is thus reduced to only 52 percent 

 in the contemporaneous Jews, and to 57 percent among the 

 modern Jewesses. But when we recall that other races of 



