The Mongol in our midst : a study of man and his three faces / by F. G. Crookshank.

  • Francis Graham Crookshank
Date:
1924
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    MAN AND HIS THREE FACES But it entirely fails to explain the homologies between the Semite and the Chimpanzee, the Mongol and the Orang, the Negro and the Gorilla. If indeed it is to be maintained, we must declare that homologies have no evidential value in respect of descent. Under these circumstances we may as well adopt at once the hypothesis, or belief, of a Creative origin, and a later dispersal into Semitic, or ' White Hamitic, or Black ; and Japhetic, or Yellow races. That, I am sure, is not the desire of any modern anthropologist. Therefore, since what has been said in criticism of Sir Arthur Keith's scheme applies equally to all schemes of a monophyletic complexion, it is perhaps worth while examining what there may be in favour of certain polyphyletic schemes which postulate a separate origin from the parent trunk of primitive stocks, each of which gave ofí later a humanoid and a simian branch. Haeckel, it will be remembered, some years ago^® went some way along [109]