Distribution.—Asia, Polynesia, America.
Influence upon the history of the world.—Material rather than moral.
II. Atlantidæ.—Maxillary profile projecting, nasal generally flat, frontal retiring, cranium dolikhokephalic, the parietal diameter being generally narrow. Eyes rarely oblique. Skin often jet-black, very rarely approaching a pure white. Hair crisp, woolly, rarely straight, still more rarely light-coloured.
Languages.—With an agglutinate, rarely an amalgamate inflection.
Distribution.—Africa.
Influence on the history of the world.—Inconsiderable.
III. Iapetidæ.—Maxillary profile but little projecting, nasal often prominent, frontal sometimes nearly vertical. Face rarely very flat, moderately broad. Skull generally dolikhokephalic. Eyes rarely oblique. Skin white, or brunette. Hair never woolly, often light-coloured. Irides black, blue, grey.
Languages.—With amalgamate inflections, or else anaptotic; rarely agglutinate, never aptotic.
Distribution.—Europe.
Influence on the history of the world.—Greater than that of either the Mongolidæ or the Atlantidæ. Moral as well as material.