The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1889-11-14
THE RACES or MANKIND.
There Are Seventy.tWO Of Them Existing Now.
All Came From Asia.

M. de QuatrefsgeS, the leading French
ethnologist, in presenting the second part
Of his Introduction to the Study Of the
Human Races" to the Academy Of Sci
ences has given an interesting summary
Of his general conclusions with regard TO
the origin and distribution Of mankind.
Neglecting the minor differences, he
estimates that there are no fewer than
seventy.two distinct races in the human
species. All these descend or branch of
from three fundamental types-the black,
the yellow and the white-which had
their origin at the great central mass Of
Northern Asia, which is thus the cradle
Of mankind. Representatives Of these
different types and the races which sprang
from them are still to be found there.
The whites, according TO NJ. de Quatre-
fages, appear to have originated on the
west Of the central mass, the yellows on
north and the blacks on the south. The
whites extended westward and northward,
giving birth to three secondary types, the
Finnish, the Semitic and the Aryan, II
except the Allophyles, which form q sep
arate group. Their area Of distribution is
continuous, as is that Of the yellows, be-
cause Of the extensive land surface Of the
Eurasian continent. The yellows spread
eastward and crossed into America. The
whites and yellows checked or blended
with each other, producing many varie-
ties Of man. The blacks, or negro type,
which originated on the south Of the CEN
tral mass, was forced by the nature Of the
continent, and probably by the attacks Of
the whites and yellows, to 60 south into
Africa and east into the Indian archipel-
ago or Melanesia.
The proto-Semites arrested their distri-
button in the north Of Africa, and the
mixture Of the two races gave rise to the
negroid populations. In the center and
south Of Africa the blacks continued in
their ethnic purity until the infiltration Of
other races from Europe and the north Of
Africa in modern times. Those which
remained in their original home became
blended with the whites and yellows,
giving rise TO the dravidian populations,
which pass by shades into the three fun
damental types.
As for the Allophyles, represented BY
the race Of Cro-Magnon, they occupied
parts Of Europe and North Africa, from
which they extended to the CaTnaries.
The three fundamental types also found
themselves in Oceania; the Allophylian
whites occupying Polynesia, the blacks
Melanesia, the yellows Malasia. The lat
ter were, according 10 NJ. de Quatreiages,
the last to come into the maritime world.
The peopling Of America dates from the
quaternary period, and is due to migrations
Of different types-Allophylic white and
yellow, blending with the local quaternary
races, which also belonged to the yellow
type. Europe, since the tertiary ages,
has received only AllOphylian whites,
Firms and Aryans. The numbered races
now existing in a pure state Is exceed
ingly restricted, II, indeed, there Is sin
gle one which can be accepted as such.
Perhaps some little groups, protected by
their isolation, such as the Mincopies,
nay show an identity Of characters at
testing their ethnic homogeneity.-LOn-
don Times.