ANCIENT AND MODERN MAN 



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philologists that more than looo different languages are 

 spoken on the earth today. The distinct man races are 

 not so many as that of course, but these many different 

 languages suggest in some measure how various living man is. 



The differences in men are mostly correlated pretty closely 

 with geographical distri- 

 bution and are readily f'^iPt'l 

 discovered to be also and 

 more importantly cor- 

 related with genealogy. 

 On these differences are 

 based the separation of 

 the man species into 

 many races of closer or 

 wider relationship and 

 hence similarity of ap- 

 pearance and behavior. 



The races of man 

 arose far back in pre- 

 historic night. Some of 

 these races have disap- 

 peared but new ones 

 and more have taken 

 their places. There are 

 races existing today that 

 have a life but little 

 above that of the men 

 of the Stone Age. The 

 Fuegians of Patagonia 

 and the savages of Australia use stone and bone implements 

 of crudest character. The New Caledonians use polished 

 stone and rough iron implements. The Weddas of Ceylon, 

 the Akkas and Bushmen of Central Africa and the Papuas 

 of Melanesia live in a stage of barbarism, and even have a 

 physical makeup, much like that of prehistoric man. They 



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Fig. 196. Lower jaw bones of 1, pre- 

 historic man, found in the Cave of 

 the Naulette, Belguim; 2, a Melanesian 

 savage of the New Hebrides Islands; 

 3, a modern Parisian. Note the mark- 

 ed difference in development of chin. 

 (After Broca.) 



