Races and Peoples Author:Daniel Garrison Brinton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III. THE BEGINNINGS AND SUBDIVISIONS OF RACES. Contents.—The origin of Man. Theories of monogenism and poly- genism ; of evolution; heterogenesis. ... more »Identities point to one origin. Birthplace of the species. The oldest human relics. Remains of the highest apes. Question of climate. Negative arguments. Darwin's belief that the species originated in Africa confirmed; but with modifications. Quaternary geography of Europe and Africa. Northern Africa united with Southern Europe. Former shore lines. The Sahara Sea. The quaternary continenls of " Eurafrica," and "Austafrica." Relics of man in them. Man in pre-glacial times.. The Glacial Age. Effect on man. Scheme of geologic time during the Age of Man. His development into races. Approximate date of this. Localities where it occurred. The "areas of characterization." Relations of continents to races. Theory of Linnaeus; of modern ethnography. Classification of races. General ethnographic scheme. Sub-divisions of races; branches; stocks; groups; peoples; tribe?; nations. Other terms; ethnos and ethnic; culture; civilization. Stadia of culture. IN the rapid survey contained in the previous lectures you have seen in how many points the races differ. No wonder that the question has often been seriously mooted by scientific men, Could they all have been derived from one common ancestral stock? This is the old debate about " the unity of the human race," still surviving under the more learned terms of moiio- gcnism or polygenisut. As to that other question, whether man came into being as such by a gradual development, evolution, or transformation, from some lower mammal, this may be regarded as the only hypothesis now known to science, and must, therefore, be accepted, at least provisionally, until some better is proposed. I...« less