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While he has been criticized for being insufficiently skeptical of his sources, Buffon was a remarkably industrious gatherer of information, and is often credited with the invention of the field of anthropology. Buffon is sometimes mistakenly credited with introducing the fertility of offspring as a criterion for assigning both parents to the same species, but his most decisive contribution consisted in his introduction of a post-theological understanding of species on which subsequent work could build.

Distrusting Linnaean classification and abstraction, Buffon still recognized six broad groupings within the human race: Lapps, Tartars, South Asians, Europeans, Ethiopians, and Americans. The idea of divisions in nature buffon gay to him speculative and scientifically irresponsible.

Species fades into species, and often genus into genus, by imperceptible nuances. This larger sense brings race into alignment with such terms as tribe, nation, class, or kind. Nor does Buffon, for all his criticisms of various groups, seem to be animated by racial antipathies.

He is particularly sensitive to cultural and physical variation within the peoples of Africa. The excerpts reproduced below give some idea of his approach. WHAT we have hitherto remarked concerning the generation of man and the structure of his body, constitutes only the history of the individual: That of the species requires a separate detail, the principal facts of which must be collected from the varieties that appear among men buffon gay different regions of the earth.

These varieties may be reduced to three heads: 1. The colour; 2. The figure and stature; and 3.

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The dispositions of different people. Each of these heads, if extensively considered, might afford materials for a volume; but we shall confine ourselves to those which are most general and best ascertained. With this view, we shall survey the surface of the earth, commencing with the northern regions.

In Lapland, and on the northern coasts of Tartary, we find a race of men of an uncouth figure, and small stature. Their countenances are equally savage as their manners. These men, who appear to be a degenerated species, are very numerous, and occupy vast regions.

The Danish, Swedish, and Muscovite Laplanders, the inhabitants of Nova Zembla, the Borandians, the Samoiedes, the northern Tartars, the Ostiacks of the Old Continent, and the Greenlanders and savages to the north of the Esquimaux Indians in the New Continent, appear to be all buffon gay same race, who have extended and multiplied along the coasts of the north sea, in deserts, and under climates which could not be inhabited by other nations.

All these people have broad large faces and fiat noses. Their eyes are of a yellowish brown colour, inclining to black; their eye-lids extend towards the temples; their cheek-bones are very prominent; their mouths are large, and their lips thick and reflected; the under part of their face is narrow; they have a squeaking voice; the head is large, the hair black and smooth; and the skin of a tawny or swarthy hue.

Their size is diminutive; but, though meagre, their form is squat. Most of them are only four feet high; and their tallest men exceed not four feet and a half. This buffon gay is so different from all others, that it seems to constitute a distinct species; for, if there be among them any distinction, it arises only buffon gay a greater or less degree of deformity.

The Borandians, for example, are still less than the Laplanders. The iris of their eyes is of the same colour; but the white is of a reddish yellow: Their skin is more tawny; and their legs, instead of being slender, like those of the Laplanders, are very thick, and shapeless.

The Samoiedes are more squat than the Laplanders; their heads are larger; their noses are broader, and their complexion darker; their legs are shorter; their hair is longer, and their beards are more scanty. The skin of the Greenlander is more tawny than that of the other nations, being of a deep olive colour; and, it is said, that some of them are as black as the Aethiopian.

Among all these people, the women are fully as ugly as the men, and resemble them so much, that the distinction is not easily perceived. The women of Greenland are very short; but their bodies are well proportioned.