Abstract
Lebzelter observed that a wide variation in physical appearance is often found in small groups of people living in comparative isolation, accompanied by a marked conservatism in cultural development. The cause for this variation in physical type is well understood and results from inbreeding: the reason for the cultural conservatism lies in the community's small margin of survival. Early human remains bear ample witness to both, a fact which precisely reflects just such a situation as must have existed immediately after the Flood and the subsequent rapid dispersion.