The human species

by A. de Quatrefages

Such as it is however, consisting at present of isolated facts only, or of facts merely collected into groups, the science of religions has already acquired a marked importance in anthropology. It leaves no doubt as to one of the fundamental characters of the human species; it furnishes facts of so independent a nature as to serve for the characterization of races; it reveals relations; it adds its testimony to that of philology in throwing light upon the filiation of certain races, in attesting the existence of ancient communications between nations long regarded as entirely separate. In these various aspects it should not be neglected by those who wish to consider the natural history of man as a whole.

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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.

Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.

Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.

[Pg 16]: ‘Athough the preceding’ replaced by ‘Although the preceding’.
[Pg 57]: ‘protruberance of the’ replaced by ‘protuberance of the’.
[Pg 67]: ‘Koebreuter showed’ replaced by ‘Koelreuter showed’.
[Pg 85]: ‘Colombus commenced’ replaced by ‘Columbus commenced’.
[Pg 111]: ‘recal the normal’ replaced by ‘recall the normal’.
[Pg 121]: ‘Claperède has only’ replaced by ‘Claparède has only’.
[Pg 133]: ‘in the skormoses’ replaced by ‘in the skovmoses’.
[Pg 138]: ‘the Eskimas are’ replaced by ‘the Esquimaux are’.
[Pg 161]: ‘Frabricius’ replaced by ‘Fabricius’.
[Pg 185]: ‘the Salomon Islands’ replaced by ‘the Solomon Islands’.
[Pg 194]: ‘of the Tahitans’ replaced by ‘of the Tahitians’.
[Pg 207]: ‘that the Alonquins’ replaced by ‘that the Algonquins’.
[Pg 231]: ‘the Caribean race’ replaced by ‘the Caribbean race’.
[Pg 234]: ‘of the Semetic’ replaced by ‘of the Semitic’.
[Pg 268]: ‘Giron de Buzareingue’ replaced by ‘Girou de Buzareingue’.
[Pg 291]: ‘discovered by Witney’ replaced by ‘discovered by Whitney’.
[Pg 292]: ‘sanatarium’ replaced by ‘sanitarium’.
[Pg 297]: ‘S. Nilson, Retzius’ replaced by ‘S. Nilsson, Retzius’.
[Pg 300]: ‘have, morever, only’ replaced by ‘have, moreover, only’.
[Pg 325]: ‘The fosail shells’ replaced by ‘The fossil shells’.
[Pg 364]: ‘the Kiavas, etc.’ replaced by ‘the Kiawas, etc.’.
[Pg 412]: ‘small brain, Haussman’ replaced by ‘small brain, Haussmann’.
[Pg 442]: ‘and ⁶/₃₀₀’ replaced by ‘and ⁶/₁₀₀’.
[Pg 464]: ‘the Salomon Islands’ replaced by ‘the Solomon Islands’.
[Pg 489]: ‘singers, chorographers’ replaced by ‘singers, choreographers’.