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THE ANIMALS AND MAN 



are indeed a sort of living link connecting Homo sapiens 

 with Homo primigenius. 



Different anthropologists and ethnologists classify and 

 catalogue the existing human races differently but they are in 

 pretty fair agreement about the principal categories. Four 

 basic great groups are generally recognized, namely, the 

 Ethiopic, the Mongolic, the Caucasic and the American. 

 The Pacific island-inhabiting peoples of Melanesia, Malaysia, 



Fig. 197. At right, a carved flint from Denmark, of the Old Stone Age; 

 at left, a polished stone axe head from Ireland, of the New Stone Age. 



Polynesia and Australia may also be grouped together as 

 a fifth or Insular and Littoral race. Each of these races 

 is probably independently traceable back to Pleistocene 

 man. Within each one of these great groups are several 

 sub-groups or branches, as the Northern; Central and 

 Southern branches of the American race; and in each branch 

 are one or more stocks as the Arctic, Atlantic, and Pacific 

 stocks of the Northern American; and finally each stock 

 may include several groups or peoples, as the Tinneh, Al- 

 gonquin, Iroquois and other peoples of the Atlantic stock. 



