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    …economist and anthropologist whose book The Races of Europe: A Sociological Study (1899) directed the attention of American social scientists to the existence of subdivisions of “geographic races.” Specifically, Ripley asserted that the European Caucasians can be broadly classified into three local races: the northern (Teutonic) and southern (Mediterranean) populations…

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