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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Human Race |
 | | For the front of the skull the criteria used in determining the peculiarities of a race are the height and breadth, the facial angle, and the form of the nostrils, orbital entrance, and palate. |
 | | 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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