Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.
From Ellsworth Huntington
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.
Again and again, to be sure, on the way to America, and under many other circumstances, man has passed through the most adverse climates and has survived, but he has flourished and waxed strong only in certain zones.
Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.
Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.
The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.
Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.
Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.
The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen North eliminates the more nervous and active types of mind.
It seems strange that almost no other traces of the strong vikings are found in America.
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