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and he had already differentiated into num-
Der Of varieties, but he has never differenti-
ated into different species.
A Species" we must remember, in biolog-
zeal language is distinguished from ''vari.
ETY." by the fact that varieties can interbreed,
while species either do not do so or produce
offspring which, like mules, re sterile All
mankind can interbreed freely, can learn to
understand the same speech, can adapt itself
to cooperation
And in the present age, man is probably
no longer undergoing differentiation at all.
Readmixture is now far stronger force than
differentiation Men mingle more and more.
Mankind from the view of biologist < an
animal species in a state of arrested differen-
tiation and possible readmixture.
1t is only in the last SO or so years that
the varieties Of men came to be regarded in
this light, as a tangle of differentiations re-
Gently arrested or still in progress. Before
that time students of mankind influenced,
consciously or unconsciously, by the story of
Noah and the Ark and his three sons Shem,
Ham and Japhet, were inclined to classify
men into three or four great races and they
were disposed to regard these races as having
| always been separate things, descended from
originally separate ancestors. They ignored
the great possibilities of blended races and
of special local isolations and variations.
Blended Races
The classification has varied considerably
DuI IAeIe udS Deeu rdCuer TOO muCn READINESS
to assume that mankind must be completely
Invisible into three or four main groups
Ethnologists (students of race) have fallen
into grievous disputes about a multitude Of
minor peoples, as to whether they were of
this or that primary race or mixed" or
strayed early forms, on what not But all
races are more or less mixed There are no
doubt, four main groups, but each is a
miscellany, and there are little groups that
will not go into any of the four main divi-
sions.
Subject to these reservations, when it is
clearly understood that when we speak of
these main divisions we mean not simple and
pure races, but groups Of races, then they
Rave certain convenience In discussion.
Over the European and Mediterranean
area and western Asia there are, and have
been for many thousand years, white peo-
pies, usually called the Caucasians subdivid-
ed into two or three subdivisions, the north
ern blends or Nordic race, an alleged inter-
mediate race about which many authorities
are doubtful, the so-called Alpine race and
the southern dark whites, the Mediterranean
or Iberian race; over eastern Asia and Ameri-
ca second group of races prevails, the Mon
golians, generally with yellow skins, straight
black hair and sturdy bodies; over Africa the
negroes, and in the region of Australia and
New Guinea the black, primitive Australoids.
These are convenient terms, provided the
student bears in mind that they are not ex-
actly defined terms. They represent only the
common characteristics of certain main
groups Of races; they leave out a number of
little peoples who belong properly to none of
these divisions, and they disregard the per-
petual mixing where the main groups ove4
lap.
ITO BE CONTTNITEO