PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Physical anthropology

... figures of speech. It has been supposed by many that all the racial stocks in the United States were tending toward a uniform type. There has never been any real evidence on which to base such a view, and the study completed in 1917 by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of the division of physical anthropology of the U. S. National Museum, furnishes evidence against it. He examined 400 individuals of the Old White American stock, that is, persons all of whose ancestors had been in the United States as far as the fourth ascending generation. He found little ...

— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson