Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-11-14
The Outline of History-By H. @. Wells
|. The Romance of Mother Earth
80. MEN OF MANY SHADES AND TINTS

80. MEN OF MANY SHADES AND TINTS
n UT among the numerous obstacles and
u J Interruptions to intermixture of the
- races of men there have been certain
main barriers, such as the Atlantic ocean,
the highlands, once higher, and the now
vanished seas Of Central Asia and the like,
which have cut off great groups Of varieties
from other great groups of varieties over
long periods Of time. These separated groups
of varieties developed very early certain
broad resemblances and differences.
Most of the varieties of men in eastern
Asia and America, but not all, have now
this in common, that they have yellowish
buff skins, straight black hair, and often
high cheekbones. Most of the native peo-
pies of Africa south of the Sahara, but not
all, have black or blackish SKINS flat noses,
thick lips and frizzy hair.
Differences of Color and Hair
In north and western Europe a great num-
Der of peoples have fair hair blue eyes and
ruddy complexions and about the Mediter-
ranean there is prevalence of white-skinned
peoples with dark eyes and black hair. The
black hair of many of these dark whites is
straight, but never so strong and waveless as
the hair Of the yellow peoples. 1t is straighter
in the east than in the west.
In southern India we find brownish and
darker peoples with straight black hair, and
these as we pass eastward give place to more
distinctly yellow peoples. In scattered islands
other series of black and brownish peoples of
more lowly type with frizzy hair.
But 1t must be borne in mind that these
are very loose-fitting congratulations. Some
OF the areas and isolated pockets of man
KIND IN the Aslatic area may have been under
conditions more like those in the European
area; some Of the African areas are of a more
Asiatic and less distinctiveIy African type.
We find a wavy-haired, fairish, hairy
skinned race, the Ainu, in Japan. They are
more like the Europeans in their facial type
than the surrounding yellow japanese. They
may be drifted patch Of the whites or they
may be quite distinct people. We find prim-
it1ve black pepole in the Andaman Islands
far away from Africa. There is a streak Of
very negroid blood traceable in south Persia
and some parts Of India. These are the CAST
attic" negroids.
Like Conditions, Like People
There Is little or no proof that all black
people, the Australians, the Asiatic negroids
and the negroes, derive from one origin, but
only that they have lived for vast periods un-
der similar conditions.
We must not assume that human beings
in the eastern Asiatic area were all differen-
tiating in one direction and all the human
beings in Africa in another. There were
great currents of tendency, it is true, but
there were also backwaters, eddies, admix-
lures, readmiXtures, and Ieakages from one
main area to the other.
A colored map of the world to show the
races would not present just four great areas
of color; it would have to be dabbed over
with a multitude Of tints and intermediate
shades, simple here, mixed and overlapping
there.
In the early NeoIithic period IN Europe
it may be 10000 or Il, 900 years ago or So
man was differentiating all over the world,