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Dr. T. Tóth: The Principal Questions of Anthropological Taxonomy
bones, epicanthus) have no real direct or indirect role in the life ot people belonging to this race, i, e,, these characteristics do nof affect their life processes. This is also true for the other races of mankind. The abolition of the supraspecific effect of adaptation is the expression of the universal law that man is a qualitatively different being and principally dissimilar to all the other living creatures. During his historical development man does not adjust to his environment in the sense that he changes his physical structure, but by altering his relation to his natural surroundings through tool manufacturing which allows him to affect nature and free himself from the harmful selective effects of his natural environment. (Roginskij, 1941, 1947, 1951, 1955 with Levin). In addition to the abolition of the primary (supraspecific) significance of adaption an extreme intermixture also characterizes the human races. The various groups of mankind did not only mix at the zone of contact of the races but also in the inner parts of their area of characterization in other words, in the entire territory of the given social (ethnic) groups. Following the Paleolithic Period the area of characterization of the human races underwent a significant change as the result of the large-scale dispersion of human groups, i. e., the increase of the habitation area. This brings about the third characteristic of human races connected with the universal development of society: the total abolition of the primary relation between racial types and specific areas of characterization. It is enough to mention the Negroid population of North and South America, the dispersion of Europoid groups at the time of colonisation, and finally, the expansion of the area of habitation of the Chinese emigrant groups which may be found in all parts of the world. These facts alone prove that the representatives of the various racial groups of mankind do not undergo biological (macrostructural) changes in any new geographical surrounding, but by social means (techniques) they can overcome environmental difficulties and provide the circumstances necessary for survival. It is true that these do not exclude the possible death of several individuals in the various ethnic groups because of insufficient adjustment to
