The Races of Man, and Their Geographical DistributionH.S. King & Company, 1876 - 528 pagini |
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Pagina 18
... supposed to have taken place . Were he still alive , Cuvier , seeing in any of our museums the graceful Hipparion of prehistoric times , with its two aborted hoofs , would have been forced to acknowledge with shame that his demand had ...
... supposed to have taken place . Were he still alive , Cuvier , seeing in any of our museums the graceful Hipparion of prehistoric times , with its two aborted hoofs , would have been forced to acknowledge with shame that his demand had ...
Pagina 31
... supposed to have crossed Behring's Straits to people America , we quite forget that even at the present day , a naked nation of fishermen still exists in Terra del Fuego , where the glaciers stretch down to the sea , and even into it ...
... supposed to have crossed Behring's Straits to people America , we quite forget that even at the present day , a naked nation of fishermen still exists in Terra del Fuego , where the glaciers stretch down to the sea , and even into it ...
Pagina 34
... supposed to have been inserted for purposes of fraud . The absence of remains of human bones must not however excite too much distrust , for after the draining of the lake of Haarlem , which was once a gulf , scanty fragments of ships ...
... supposed to have been inserted for purposes of fraud . The absence of remains of human bones must not however excite too much distrust , for after the draining of the lake of Haarlem , which was once a gulf , scanty fragments of ships ...
Pagina 50
... supposed to distinguish the female cranium . Nevertheless , we are far from being able to determine with certainty the sex of an unknown skull . Several years ago , the English craniologist , Barnard Davis , wrote to A. Ecker that he ...
... supposed to distinguish the female cranium . Nevertheless , we are far from being able to determine with certainty the sex of an unknown skull . Several years ago , the English craniologist , Barnard Davis , wrote to A. Ecker that he ...
Pagina 65
... supposed himself to have perceived in these human malformations a reversion or , in the language of the Darwinian theory , an atavism , which , by the reappearance of ances- tral characters of remote times , affords testimony of the ...
... supposed himself to have perceived in these human malformations a reversion or , in the language of the Darwinian theory , an atavism , which , by the reappearance of ances- tral characters of remote times , affords testimony of the ...
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Abiponer aborigines according Africa ancient animals Anthropologie apes Archiv für Anthropologie Asia Asiatic Ausland Australians average Barnard Davis Berlin bones Botocudos brachycephalic brain Buddhism Bushmen Celts characters Chinese civilization coast colour continent crania cubic centimetres custom Darwin Descent districts doctrine dolichocephalic Eskimo ethnology Europe European existence fact female Fiji fire Fritsch frontal suture Fuegians German Guinea hair Hence Hottentots hunting tribes hybrids index of breadth Indians inhabitants islands language Malay Martius means measurements narrow nations natives negroes Nile North northern observed Old World origin Ostiaks Otto Finsch Papuans period poison Polynesian possess primitive prognathism races of mankind regarded regions Reise Reisen root Shaman shores skin skulls so-called South America Southern species Spenser St stone suffixes supposed suture tion transmutation of species tree Tylor Ural-Altaic languages vessels Voyage Waitz weight Weisbach Welcker women words worship
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Pagina 21 - Our Place among Infinities. A Series of Essays contrasting our little abode in space and time with the Infinities around us. To which are added Essays on "Astrology,
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Pagina 24 - STEVENSON (Rev. WF). Hymns for the Church and Home. Selected and Edited by the Rev. W. Fleming Stevenson. The most complete Hymn Book published. The Hymn Book consists of Three Parts : — I.
Pagina 2 - By C. KEGAN PAUL, MA Oxon., and the Rev. ED STONE, MA, late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Assistant Master at Eton. Second and revised edition. Crown 8vo. Cloth, price 6s. BAYNES (Rev. Canon RH). At the Communion Time. A Manual for Holy Communion.
Pagina 2 - Army of the North German Confederation. A Brief Description of its Organization, of the Different Branches of the Service and their rdle in War, of its Mode of Fighting, &c., &c.
Pagina 15 - XVIII. The Nature of Light: With a General Account of Physical Optics.
Pagina 12 - HAWEIS, Rev. HR, MA— Current Coin. Materialism— The Devil — Crime — Drunkenness — Pauperism — Emotion — Recreation —The Sabbath.
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Pagina 289 - Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire : your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.
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