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Caucasic Aryans were the ones who came and taught the Negro, militarily anyway, that the world is larger ...
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Caucasic and Mongoloid peoples are confident of their state authorities represented by their embassies.
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Yet our knowledge of the oceans: their sizes, depths, occupants (hydro-biologues) ... came and continues coming to us from the Caucasic and the Mongoloid peoples; nearly none from the Negro.
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Although all speak dialects of a common Malayo-Polynesian language, the physical type is quite distinct and rather Caucasic than Mongolic, though betraying a perceptible Papuan (or Negrito) strain especially in New Zealand and
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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Polynesia who are neither Malays nor Papuans but of Caucasic type.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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As compared with those of the apes, the human wisdom teeth are degenerate; in the gorilla they are cut at the same time as the other molars; and in the lower human races they come through the gums in early youth, while in the more advanced Caucasic races they are cut only in later life or not at all.
The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton
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*** In general it may be said that, viewed as a whole, the Negro family presents as profound deviation within itself as do the Caucasic and the Mongolic, -- that is, the two other great families of the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Yamato were mainly of Caucasic, perhaps Iranian, origin.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Archipelago _viâ_ the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra, must, however, have found Borneo and other of the islands partially occupied by a Caucasic race, as amongst the aborigines are still found individuals of distinctive Caucasic type, as has been pointed out to be the case with the Buludupih tribe of British North Borneo, by Dr. MONTANO, whom I had the pleasure of meeting in Borneo in 1878-9.
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884
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The Tertiary land-bridge across the North Atlantic between Norway and Greenland may possibly have guided a pre-Caucasic migration to America and given that continent part of its aboriginal population. [
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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