Physical Anthropology of the Jews. I.—the Cephalic Index

The physical anthropology of the contemporaneous Jews has been one of the most debated questions in anthropology.From the comparatively large number of measurements taken on living subjects, authorities have drawn different conclusions.Some, like Jacobs, Andree, and others, have maintained that the Jews are a pure race, the descendants of the primitive Semites, and almost entirely unmixed with foreign blood, while others have stated that the results of the study of the physical characteristics of the Jews are against this view.They argue that nearly all the contemporaneous peoples known to be of Semitic origin are dolichocephalic, as is the case of the Arabians, the Abyssinians, the Syrians, etc.; while the modern Jews of Europe are mesocephalic or even extremely brachycephalic.'brings evidence that even the ancient Hebrews were already a mixed race.I t is further alleged that anthropometric measurements reveal two types of head-form among the modern Jews,the long and the round,-which evidently tend to indicate that the Jews are a mixed race.'The fact that the brachycephalic

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