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  • And that the Celt was closely related to Cro-Magnon man, who in turn was linked to the "Africanoid" (quoted in John Beddoe, 'Races of Britain').

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  • Her Africanoid cranial structure suggests her origins were the Arabian Peninsula.

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  • Her Africanoid cranial structure suggests her origins were the Arabian Peninsula.

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  • I didn't get this feeling from the pairs - Nyima Rewa (Africanoid) and Bod (indeterminate);Odhràn Torley (Gaelic?) and Eikrengt (Germanic?)

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  • Thus John Beddoe, who later became the President of the Anthropological Institute (1889-1891), wrote in his Races of Britain (1862) that all men of genius were orthognathous (less prominent jaw bones) while the Irish and the Welsh were prognathous and that the Celt was closely related to Cromagnon man, who, in turn, was linked, according to Beddoe, to the “Africanoid”.

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  • Bearing in mind the thick-lipped Africanoid features of these carvings, some researchers postulate that the Olmecs originally came from Africa, and indeed their language is very similar to that spoken today in Mali.

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