Произход и развитие на медитеранската раса
Origin and Development of the Mediterranean Race

Summary/Abstract: The origin of the Mediterranean race is considered on the basis of the conception of race as an aggregate of populations. The initial stages of race genesis are traced, connected with the process of sapientia, the role of adaptation factors being considered as well as that of isolation and the mixing of races which changes the genetic structure of the human population. An answer is sought to the question of the source at which the Mediterranean race appeared and its great age. A detailed study is made of its different variants which were differentiated and developed as mankind spread and settled in definite regions. The development of Mediterranean types is traced and its racial types on the territory of Bulgaria from the Neolithic Age up to the present. On the basis of Palaeonthropological studies the conclusion is drawn that the Balkan Peninsula should be included in the area, where the Mediterranean race was formed. The development of racial types in the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages gives groups for the assertion that the basic mass of the Balkan population was of local origin. The Mediterranean features brought later by the Slavs (with an admixture of the Northern race) and by the proto-Bulgarians, from their Iranian and Turkic roots (mixed with the Mongolian race), are also traced.

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