Figure 1
: Blumembach’s five-fold taxonomy (Blumembach, 2011)
Figure 2
: Example of portrait-type portrayal: Sakalava woman in Madagascar (Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library)
Figure 3
: Diagram showing the possible origin of humans from different primate species, in Blythe’s letter to Darwin, dated February 19, 1867 (Darwin Archive, DAR 160: 209, 209)
Figure 4
: “Types of mankind or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races, and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history” (Nott, Gliddon, 1854NOTT, Josiah Clark; GLIDDON, Geo R. Types of mankind. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1854.) (J.C. Nott and Geo. R. Gliddon/Google Books).
Figure 5
: Casta painting showing a Mestizo resulting from the union of a male Spaniard with an indigenous woman (Cabrera, 1763CABRERA, Miguel. De Español e India, mestizo. Oil. 135.5x103.5cm. Private collection, Ciudad de México. 1763.)
Figure 6
: Depiction of the casta system in Mexico (Ignacio María Barreda, “Las castas Mexicanas”, 1776)
Figure 7
: Maize people (Fragment of mural by Diego Rivera in the Palacio National, Mexico City, 1929)
Figure 8
: Illustration by Gustav Müller (Haeckel, 1868HAECKEL, Ernst. Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte: Gemeinverständliche wissenschaftliche Vorträge über die Entwickelungslehre im Allgemeinen und diejenige von Darwin, Göthe und Lamarck im Besonderen, über die Anwendung derselben auf den Ursprung des Menschen und andern damit zusammenhängende Gründfragen der Natur-Wissenschaft. Mit Tafeln, Holzschnitten, systematischen und genealogischen Tabellen. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 1868.). Its intention was to show the affinity between the “lowest humans” and “highest apes.” From top to bottom, the heads represent the Indo-German, Chinese, Fuegian, Australian Negro, African Negro, Tasmanian, gorilla, chimpanzee, orang, gibbon, proboscis monkey, and mandrill
Figure 9
: Cover of the textbook Naturaleza y ciencias (Nature and sciences) (Jáuregui, 1955JÁUREGUI, Rodolfo. Naturaleza y ciencias. Ciudad de México: Editorial Patria. 1955.)
Figure 10
: A simplified genealogical tree of primates (Romer, quoted in Contemporary Biology, 1962CONTEMPORARY BIOLOGY. Contemporary biology, second course. Ciudad de México: Eclalsa. 1962.)
Figure 11
: Mongoloid race, according to Romer (Contemporary Biology, 1962CONTEMPORARY BIOLOGY. Contemporary biology, second course. Ciudad de México: Eclalsa. 1962., p.366)
Figure 12
: Head of the “Hottentot Venus” (Copy of the sculpture in the Natural History Museum of Paris)
Figure 13
: The distribution of the main human groups worldwide, according to Mathew (Contemporary Biology, 1962CONTEMPORARY BIOLOGY. Contemporary biology, second course. Ciudad de México: Eclalsa. 1962., p.366)
Figure 14
: Representation of human evolution in Mexican monographs from the 1970s, which are still in use (El Homo..., n.d.EL HOMO.... El Homo antecessor y el Homo sapiens. Evolutionary tree of men, n.M630. Ciudad de México: Ediciones Bob. n.d.)
Figure 15
: Representations of human evolution in Mexican monographs from the 1970s, which are still in use (El hombre, n.d.EL HOMBRE. El Hombre. Evolution of life 2, n.1090. Ciudad de México: Ediciones RAF S.A. n.d.)
Figure 16
: Representations of human evolution in Mexican monographs from the 1970s, which are still in use (El cuerpo..., n.d.EL CUERPO... El cuerpo humano. Evolution of life, n.796. Ciudad de México: Ediciones RAF S.A. n.d.)
Figure 17
: Representations of human evolution in Mexican monographs from the 1970s, which are still in use (Hombre de..., n.d.HOMBRE DE... Hombre de Tepexpan y Hombre moderno. Evolution of man, n.1065. Ciudad de México: Ediciones RAF S.A. n.d.)
