Steve Sailer raises the issue of the

anthropologically-unique Andaman Islanders, whose home is near the epicenter

of the recent terrible earthquake.

Of the anthropological uniqueness of these people, Steve notes:

“The men average 4′-10″ and 95 pounds. The women have such pronounced

’steatopygia’ that a mother who needs to carry her toddler on her back will

have the child throw his arms around her neck and stand on her remarkably

protuberant, gravity-defying buttocks. (Unfortunately, Carleton Coon’s

you-gotta-see-it-to-believe-it photo of this is not on line.)”

Well, it is now. After reading Steve, I promptly powered up my scanner and

pulled down my copy of Coon’s splendid classic THE LIVING RACES OF MAN.

(Ooooh! Derb’s a racist! Gimme a break. The book is dated 1965. Coon

taught at Harvard, and was, among many other things, President of the

American Association of Physical Anthropologists. It is true that physical

anthropology is now a “dangerous” subject, like history in a communist

country; but that is not my fault, or Coon’s, or Steve’s. It is just part

of the general idiocy of our age.)

Here is the Andamanese woman.

And, yes, what is the fate of these people after this terrible disaster?