Abstract
PROF. G. MONTANDON, now professor of ethnology at the ficole d'Anthropologie, Paris, has given us in this book an introduction to the study of the races of man which is intended for both the beginner and the layman. He opens with the study of ‘race’, defining it, and then dealing with the various methods of study and the characters by which race is differentiated in man. Particular attention is paid to the latest developments of the study of heredity as applied to human races, and the evidence which may be afforded by the blood groups is demonstrated. He then deals with racial origins and distribution, electing the holo-genetic in preference to the monogenetic point of view. Next he passes on to the description of the significant physical characters in each of the principal races of mankind, classifying them under the main headings of pygmies, negroids, Ved-Australoids, Mongoloids and Europoids. M. Montandon's concept of racial filiation leads to an original plotting of racial migrations, which would bring the earliest immigrants into America by way of the south instead of the more generally accepted north. Here he accords with the theories of M. Rivet and others. M. Montandon expounds difficult material with great clarity.
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