10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BRACHYCEPHALISM»
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The early inhabitants of these islands, like other ancient races of northern and
western Europe, are distinguishable, nevertheless, for an unusual prevalence of
brachycephalism which is natural to them ; though in some cases it may have
been ...
Joseph Barnard Davis, John Thurnam, 1865
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Physical Anthropology of European Populations
Let us add here a fact which may need to be emphasized: the absence of
brachycephalism in these people from the Capsian strata. But brachycephalism
was not an unknown characteristic in Algeria in the Epipaleolithic period, for a
small ...
Ilse Schwidetzky, Bruno Chiarelli, Olga Necrasov, 1980
3
Fieldmuseum of natural history
In the Caucasus the Jews are hyperbrachycephalic, but as brachycephalism
characterises the Caucasianpopuiations intermixture would fully explain the fact.
According to Reclus {vt p. 225] the Suabian colonies in the Kura valley in the
course ...
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A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, ...
Here we find one of the shortest races of North America, which is characterized
by the most excessive brachycephalism, very low faces and flat noses. I have not
been able to find any type which resembles it anywhere else in North America.
Franz Boas, George W. Stocking, Jr, 1989
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Midline Medical Dictionary
Brachycephalism. See Brachycephaly. Brachycephaly. The condition of being
brachycephalic; brachycephalism. - Brachycheilia. Abnormally short lips;
brachichilia. Brachychilia. See Brachycheilia. Brachydactylia. See
Brachydactylism.
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The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal
Mastication and Brachycephalism. Under the title " Le travail de la mastication est
la cause de la brachycephalie " (Bull. Soc. d. Sci , Bucarest, 1903, Vol. XII.. pp.
390-395), Dr. H. Sanielevici maintains the thesis that brachycephalism in human
...
Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman, 1905
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American Anthropology, 1888-1920: Papers from the American ...
Therefore it would appear that brachycephalism becomes more frequent in those
regions where intermixture with Athapaskans makes itself felt. In order to
strengthen or to refute this theory, it would be necessary to obtain measurements
of the ...
Frederica De Laguna, Alfred Irving Hallowell, 2002
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The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal
XII, pp. 390-395), Dr. H. Sanielevici maintains the thesis that brachycephalism in
human skulls is the result of the process of mastication. Contrary to the view of
Nystrijm, according to whom brachycephalism is normal and dolichocephalism a
...
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Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
directly oppose the conclusion.3* For brachycephalism is not found chiefly in
districts once inhabited by Slavs, but in districts free of Slavs, as for instance on
the Ionian Islands and in a quite particular degree with the Greeks of Kerasus (on
the ...
John Rylands Library, 1967
directly oppose the conclusion.3* For brachycephalism is not found chiefly in
districts once inhabited by Slavs, but in districts free of Slavs, as for instance on
the Ionian Islands and in a quite particular degree with the Greeks of Kerasus (on
the ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BRACHYCEPHALISM»
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brachycephalism is used in the context of the following news items.
The Adena People and Prehistoric Colonization of North America
... brachycephalic, and that decidedly so…and it is too obvious to need remark, that the mode of nursing would heighten this brachycephalism. «Ancient Origins, Jul 15»
Boring Dog Wins Westminster Dog Show
... as it encourages inbreeding, the dominance of “purebred” dogs, and impractical or downright dangerous physical traits, like brachycephalism ... «The Awl, Feb 14»
