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

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    MAN AND HIS THREE FACES of study of the Combe Capelle skeleton, that he called Homo aurignacensis Hauser i, formulated the notion, that, in the beginning of Man's history, two types stood out from amongst a welter of propithecanthropoids dis¬ persed from the now sunken Indonesian continent. Of these, one that he called the A/0 type (or Aurignacian-Orangoid) became the parent stem of Mongols and of Orangs ; the other, that he called the N/G type (or Neanderthal- Gorilloid) became the parent stem for the Negroes and the Gorillas^®, Now this is interesting. Although the difíerence in posture between the Mongol-Orang and the Negro-Gorilla, had apparently escaped Klaatsch's attention, it was the difíerence between the femurs of the Gorilla and Orang on the one hand and the like difíerence between the femurs of Neanderthal man (or the Negro) and the Aurignacian man (or Mongol) on the other that attracted his notice. But, some of the differences noted by Klaatsch are amongst those which, [ 113] Ы