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Instructor in the Department of Bacteriology and Immunology of Harvard University Medical School
Abstract
Two hundred and twenty-three pure Mayas and 202 people of mixed Maya and Spanish blood were grouped. A high percentage incidence of Group O was found, in the case of the Mayas amounting to 97.7 per cent. This points to the racial purity and antiquity of the Maya stock.
Footnotes
1 This work was supported jointly by the Carnegie Institution of Washington and by the Department of Tropical Medicine of Harvard University Medical School.
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