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A Comparative Inquiry into the Origins, Physiology, and Hereditary Limits of the Principal Races

With Particular Attention to Persistent Errors, Popular Superstitions, and Several Academic Theories Which Ought Never to Have Survived Peer Review

By

Professor Emeritus Alistair Veyne, D.Nat., D.Phil., M.R.A.S., F.I.C., F.R.S.H., K.C.V.

Holder of the Imperial Chair of Comparative Physiology and Natural History
Former President of the Royal Anatomical Society, Twice Elected
Senior Fellow of the Institute for Comparative Biology
Corresponding Fellow of the High Elven Academy of Natural Inquiry
Foreign Member of the Dwarven Collegium of Mineral Anatomy
Honorary Lecturer to the Aesir Society for Northern Medicine
Recipient of the Veyr Medal for Biological Inquiry
Recipient of the Albrecht Prize for Historical Method
Recipient of the Crown Laureate in Natural Philosophy
Consulting Anatomist to the Third Royal Commission on Hereditary Disease
Former Physician-Naturalist to the Imperial Northern Expeditionary Corps
Author of On the Mineral Constitution of the Dwarven Skeleton
Author of Elven Senescence: A Quantitative Reassessment
Author of The Gremlin Digestive System and Other Arguments Against Divine Simplicity
Editor of the revised fourth edition of The Collegiate Atlas of Comparative Anatomy
And, by unanimous decision of its governing council, No Longer Invited to Address the Society for Traditional Ethnogenesis