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Origin of local types, 34. -descent 11 large and in small communities, 34. Johmnsen's observation: on plants, 39. Mixture of local types, 90. Varia bility in local types and in races, 91.
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Franz Boas (born July 9, 1858, died December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology."
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