The Evolutionary Races of Color

64:3.1Be­sides the Fox­hall peo­ples in the west, an­other strug­gling cen­ter of cul­ture per­sisted in the east. This group was lo­cated in the foothills of the north­west­ern In­dian high­lands among the tribes of Bado­nan, a great-great-grand­son of An­don. These peo­ple were the only de­scen­dants of An­don who never prac­ticed hu­man sac­ri­fice.

64:3.2These high­land Ba­don­ites oc­cu­pied an ex­ten­sive pla­teau sur­rounded by forests, tra­versed by streams, and abound­ing in game. Like some of their cousins in Ti­bet, they lived in crude stone huts, hill­side grot­toes, and semi­un­der­ground pas­sages.

64:3.3While the tribes of the north grew more and more to fear the ice, those liv­ing near the home­land of their ori­gin be­came ex­ceed­ingly fear­ful of the wa­ter. They ob­served the Mes­o­po­ta­mian penin­sula grad­u­ally sink­ing into the ocean, and though it emerged sev­eral times, the tra­di­tions of these prim­i­tive races grew up around the dan­gers of the sea and the fear of pe­ri­odic en­gulf­ment. And this fear, to­gether with their ex­pe­ri­ence with river floods, ex­plains why they sought out the high­lands as a safe place in which to live.

64:3.4To the east of the Bado­nan peo­ples, in the Si­wa­lik Hills of north­ern In­dia, may be found fos­sils that ap­proach nearer to tran­si­tion types be­tween man and the var­i­ous pre­hu­man groups than any oth­ers on earth.

64:3.5850,000 years ago the su­pe­rior Bado­nan tribes be­gan a war­fare of ex­ter­mi­na­tion di­rected against their in­fe­rior and an­i­mal­is­tic neigh­bors. In less than one thou­sand years most of the bor­der­land an­i­mal groups of these re­gions had been ei­ther de­stroyed or driven back to the south­ern forests. This cam­paign for the ex­ter­mi­na­tion of in­fe­ri­ors brought about a slight im­prove­ment in the hill tribes of that age. And the mixed de­scen­dants of this im­proved Ba­don­ite stock ap­peared on the stage of ac­tion as an ap­par­ently new peo­ple—the Ne­an­derthal race.