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 White, Black and Yellow—that we can pick out amongst ourselves ; illuminates for us much that is obscure in respect of the Piltdown, Obercassel, and other skulls ; enables us to re¬ cognise the several affinities of the still extant Bushmen and Australians ; and clears up some points made by the anthropologists in respect of recapitu¬ lation, as well as supporting what has been said in respect of the orangoid character of the Mauer jaw.® Moreover, quite recently, Klaatsch's notions have, in a way, received striking support from Sera^®^ who lays great stress upon the facial resemblances between racial human types and the various types of ape and monkey. It is not necessary to say that Sera's work agrees with much of what has been pointed out by the present writer. But it has gravely disturbed orthodoxy and has been little discussed. At the end, then, we are driven to declare that Vogt was very nearly right when, in face of bitter opposition he maintained his twin theses : those [115]