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Show MAN AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS Anthropologists Hava Discovered Many Interesting Facts That Have Bearing on Their Relations. At a recent meeting of the German! Anthropological society, Prof. Ed Hahn, lectured on human races and proper-; ties of domestic animals, dwelling es-j pecially on such relations as are foundj to exist between the outward appearance appear-ance of human races and the races of man's animal companions. The hues mainly occurring in the case of man as well as of domestic animals are black, brown, red, yellow and white, a remarkable feature being that these external characteristics seem to be connected with the whole of bodily constitution. A distinguished anthropologist. anthro-pologist. Prof. Eugen Fischer of Fret-, burg, Baden, on evidence afforded by; the eye of mammals, considers thai whiteness of domestic animals and' white man to be kindred phenomena,; nor does he hesitate to suggest many other analogies of a similar kind be-, tween man and animals. According to; the lecturer, humanity as a whole, in-, elusive of what are called primitive peoples, has been subjected for sometime some-time to conditions similar to those at work in the case of our domestic anl-: mals. The classification mainly based on color may be replaced by a system of darker and lighter strains within a given race. Attention is drawn in this connection to the Simmenthal oxen, which, within memory of man, have become remarkably bright-colored, as well as to the fact that the subsequent subse-quent darkening of adults points to the merging, in olden times, of brighter bright-er and darker varieties of man. Scientific Sci-entific American. |