1887] 
MONOGENISM. 
At = epoch did this single species 
appear on the surface of the ee p- The 
ening ‘of antiquity is simple. 
The human species first ons only 
a circumscribed area of the globe. There 
is, then, a question of geographic origin to 
ve. 
e globe was peopled by anise’ 
o! ich we have to bi the es 
and iseti the histo 
To-day there ne “ee no autoch- 
thonous people n particular, 
oor fy: olynesia v were agate only by col- 
The human soaa inhabits to- asy the 
entire sreng le as well as the 
ator. It ig therefor, subjected it- 
f to environments the most diverse. 
The question of erant ting in its widest 
and in its most special sense is necessarily 
In these Shige the human species, 
ed action of new environ- 
be 
& 
S 
passing in our day ought to arrest 
special manner the attention of anthro- 
pologists. 
Crosses between human races in the 
parent types. 
the persian oksa combined 
in peoples of . an class 
ae een human 1 races most di- 
ss ce under eyes. They 
have piven birth to populations which en- 
mer 5 day and more 
d eng oe The aly of th ea 
ouble an 
the past and permits us to look into the 
~All actual populations have been m 
or less modified, either by pakane 
i h 
or by crossing. The primitive type of hu- 
manity is lost. r i 
could 
sible 
which would — it? 
Anthropology. 
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POLYGENISM. 
At what epoch have appeared the dif- 
fe Siyan species? H 
ave they arisen 
ively? The 
question ee antiquity is tiple. 
The ent species have first appeared 
th where history announces 
their discovery. The question of ge 
raphic in does not exi 
Migr count nothing i in ae 
The P ea of which histor 
sery ed the memory ar 
an in: 
ence over the pirita distribution of 
eoples. 
Excepting the 
European colonies 
founded in our day and those recorded in 
history, almost the entire globe has been 
peopled af auth ones. Specially, all 
the peo f America and Polynesia 
were my could oly he the products of 
the soil where modern explorers have 
found A 
Sos ples, constituting 
any Biss originating on the spot, were 
the 
‘ade to live nich ey which 
sree ae diem The ere is no general 
estion of acclimating. We ri ave only 
i study the special cases resulting from 
e expansion of m pulations. 
ifferent Saat ies have ap- 
peared with all the characteristics now 
arking ` a environment 
could nor alter these. We have not to 
searc -o distinctive edan ea 
could be Wong 
_ Populations with mixed characters 
therefore, about their irecte. ethnic 
ins. 
Crosses among human species can have 
if the crossing c 
study possesses, therefore, a serious in- 
terest for us. 
All the human species having appeared 
with their — characters, such as. 
we now re em, nye B oblem of 
roe 
primitive man oe no 
