Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1913 — WHITES ALL ALBINO BLACKS. [ARTICLE]

WHITES ALL ALBINO BLACKS.

Latest Ethnological Theory Propounded by Prof. Pearson of London. London.—Karl Pearson, professor of applied mathematics and mechanics at University College, London, who is also an anthropologist, stated in a lecture before the Royal Institution to-day that it was. his opinion the white races sprang from a dark skinned ancestry through partial albinism. Among other proofs he advanced was the fact that albinos are comparatively frequently born of colored parents, but never vice versa. He suggested that the great increase In the relative prevalence of albinism nowadays was due to the less Intense struggle for existence.