Types of Mankind: Or, Ethnological Researches, Based Upon the Ancient Monuments, Paintings, Sculptures, and Crania of Races, and Upon Their Natural, Geographical, Philological and Biblical History |
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... inches . The teeth are perfect and not appreciably worn , while the epiphyses , those infallible indications of the growing state , have just become consolidated , and mark the completion of adult age . The bones of the hands and feet ...
... inches . The teeth are perfect and not appreciably worn , while the epiphyses , those infallible indications of the growing state , have just become consolidated , and mark the completion of adult age . The bones of the hands and feet ...
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... inches and eight - tenths . " A chemical examination of some fragments of the bones proves them to be almost ... inch and a half in length , and more than half an inch above the natural surface . This morbid condition may have resulted ...
... inches and eight - tenths . " A chemical examination of some fragments of the bones proves them to be almost ... inch and a half in length , and more than half an inch above the natural surface . This morbid condition may have resulted ...
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... inch by inch through false theology . The last grand battle between science and dogmatism , on the primitive origin of races , has now commenced . It requires no prophetic eye to foresee that science must again , and finally , triumph ...
... inch by inch through false theology . The last grand battle between science and dogmatism , on the primitive origin of races , has now commenced . It requires no prophetic eye to foresee that science must again , and finally , triumph ...
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... inches less of brain than the Teuton ; and , unless there were really some facts in history , something beyond bare hypotheses , to teach us how these deficient inches could be artificially added , it would seem that the Negroes in ...
... inches less of brain than the Teuton ; and , unless there were really some facts in history , something beyond bare hypotheses , to teach us how these deficient inches could be artificially added , it would seem that the Negroes in ...
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... inch ) sculpture to endure long as time shall respect the Berlin Museum . Now , in the dry climate of Memphis , Egyptian colors known to range from 2500 to 4000 years old , where not exposed to the dew , or to the Etesian winds , still ...
... inch ) sculpture to endure long as time shall respect the Berlin Museum . Now , in the dry climate of Memphis , Egyptian colors known to range from 2500 to 4000 years old , where not exposed to the dew , or to the Etesian winds , still ...
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