On the phenomena of hybridity in the genus homo / by Paul Broca ... ; edited with the permission of the author, by C. Carter Blake.
- Paul Broca
- Date:
- 1864
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the phenomena of hybridity in the genus homo / by Paul Broca ... ; edited with the permission of the author, by C. Carter Blake. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![GENERAL OBSERVATIONS, 5 only advanced this opinion as an hypothesis : They appeared to us to hold a medium place between those people (Malays) and the Negroes in regard to character, physiognomy, and the nature of their hair/'^ This is all those authors say; but Mr. Lesson instead of quoting this as a mere hypothesis^ says, These people have been perfectly described by MM. Quoy and Gaimard, who were the first to demonstrate that they constitute a hybrid race, and are, ung[uestionablij, the issue of Papuans (properly so called) and Malays located in those parts, and which form the mass of the population. Mr. de Eienzi, on the other hand, has described two varieties of Papuan hybrids : one variety the issue of a crossing between the Papuans and the Malays,—the Papou-Malays ; the second variety, the issue of an intermixture betAvecn the Papuans and the Alforian- Endamenes—the Pou-Endamenes.^ There is already a com¬ plication here. Now comes Mr. Maury, who maintains that the race issued fi-om the Papuans and Malays is the Alforian race.® What are we to conclude fi-om these contradictions ? M. Quoy and Gaimard had a certain impression, M. Eienzi entertained a somewhat different impression, to which the authorities cited by Mr. Maury are altogether opposed. All is then, as yet, an hypothesis, and the question is as yet doubtful. In this uncertainty it might well be asked whether the Malays, the Alfourous, the mop-headed Papuans, and the Papuans properly so called might not be as many pure races. It is not merely in the region of the mop-headed Papuans that the other three races are to be met with. The Malays, an in¬ vading people ]par excellence, have, like the English, established themselves on all the coasts accessible to their vessels, and if the mop-headed race occupies only a very confined district, and is perfectly unknown elsewhere where the same elements are present, we are permitted to conclude that it is not the result of an intermixture. Moreover, Dr. Latham, the most zealous of Dr. Prichard^s pupils, informs us that Mr. Earle has seen 1 Quoy et Gaimard, Observât, sur la constitution, physique des Papous, repro¬ duit dans Lesson. Complement des Œuvres de Buffon, t. iii., Paris, 1829. 2 Dbnieny de Eienzi, l'Oceanie, t. iii, p. 303. Paris, 1837. 3 Maury, La terre et l7iomme, p. 365. Paris, 1847.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b18035334_0022.JP2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
