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THERE are few subjects the explanation of which has taxed the ingenuity of man more than the existence of extremes of colour in different sections of the human race. Tradition has attributed the dark race to one of three brothers, the other two being progenitors of the opposite hue, without at the same time offering any solution of the variation from a common stock.
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ALCOCK, N. Why Tropical Man is Black . Nature 30, 401–403 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/030401a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/030401a0