Man

For the zoological characters of Man see ANTHROPIDÆ, where he is regarded as a sub-order of Primates. The characters that differentiate Man from the other Primates are of no greater moment than those which distinguish the different families of Apes; yet there have been authors who on psychic grounds have put Man in a group over against the animal kingdom. Cuvier constituted Man an order, Linnæus a family only. Aga iz thought man to be of several distinct species. Blumenbach distinguished five races, characterized by the form of head, color of skin, and structure of hair; viz., Caucasian. Mongolian, Ethiopian, American, and Malay: Cuvier deemed the last two mere varieties of the Mongolian. In modern times Retzius has distinguished the Ortho gnat hi and Prognathi, each of which may be divided into the Dolichocephalic and Brachycephalic types. Huxley has grouped mankind as Ulotrichi (woolly-haired), Ethiopians; Leiotrichi (smooth-haired), including three sections; Australioid (the Malays); Mongolioid (Mongol i ans and American Indians); and Iranian (Caucasian), subdivided into the Melanochroi and Xanthochroi.