Races of man / by Sonia Cole.

  • Cole, Sonia, 1918-1982.
Date:
1965
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Credit: Races of man / by Sonia Cole. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Contents Page Preface ............. 5 1 Definition of Race ........... 9 Foundations of Classification . . . . . . . . .10 Other Methods of Classification . . . . . . . . .12 II Physical Characters of Race . . . . . . . . .14 Skeletal Features . . . . . . . . . . .14 Surface Features ........... 20 III Genetics and Evolution ......... 26 Principles of Genetics ......... 26 Genetics and Evolution .......... 27 The Influence of Environment ........ 28 IV Blood Groups and other Biochemical Characters ..... 34 The ABO Groups ........... 34 The Rhesus Series ........... 37 The M, N, Ss Groups .......... 38 Other Blood-group Studies ......... 39 More Biochemical Characters ......... 40 V Racial Origins ........... 43 The Earliest Hominids .......... 44 Specialized Races of the Upper Pleistocene ....... 45 Early Representatives of Modern Man ....... 46 The Food-gathering Stage ......... 49 The Food-producing Stage .......... 50 The Bronze and Iron Ages ......... 52 Recent Colonizations . . . . . . . . • .53 VI Caucasoids ..... ..... 55 Europe ............. 56 India ............. 58 North and North-eastern Africa . . . . . . . . .58 Caucasoids in Europe .......... 60 Caucasoids in India ........... 72 Caucasoids in Africa . . . . . . . . . .76 VII Australoids and Pacific Islanders ........ 81 Australian Aborigines .......... 82 Ainu ............. 84 Veddoids ............ 85 Pacific Islanders ........... 87