Notes and Comment
Abstract
name is familiarE.Woodruff,the readersU.S. Army,OF INsANriYby reasonof his hasinteresting made Although to life to it.and the if Inupon sunlight to lifeanthropology, is not it may tissuebold utterance that sunlight is essential the animal or supportan unmixed blessing. equally be destructive be exposed too longtropical among negroof this view he cites the bactericidal effect of sunlight, the of blonds from the inhabitants of tropical or semiclimates and the development of protective pigmentation races where tropicssunlight the Eskimosnow.is brightest, in coldThis pigmentation,as regionsexample wherehe reasons,the strongis reflectedto enablethe individualto adjusthis environment and individuals who do not develop die out as unsuited to this climate. He says: âIt so happens that the cloudiness of Europe, like thatit eventually of WesternAmerica, increases toward the northwest. Consequently it is a rule that the complexions of the European races darken in proportion to the amount of sunshine. The blondest are in the northern, darkest, cloudiest and rainiest places. It stands to reason then that if a blond man migrates from this dark home to a light country, he is injured by the light andAryans upfew who the ancientin a*generations. This explains the disappearance of the migrated in repeated waves to Southern Europe, and Greek