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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Human Race |
 | | He took as the normal type the skull of the Caucasian race, which is distinguished by harmony of the individual parts, none being unduly prominent: with roundness (mesocephaly) are united a massive high forehead, narrow cheek-bones, round alveolar arch, and an orthognathous upper jaw. |
 | | To this race belong the inhabitants of Malacca in Asia and the natives of the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. |
 | | The Ethiopian race includes the inhabitants of Africa except the Caucasian Africans in the north; the skull is dolichocephalic, the forehead full, the cheek-bones prominent, the nostrils wide, the alveolar arch narrow and prominent, the jaws prognathous, and the lower jaw large and strong. |
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