dolichocephalic

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• At the southern and western end of that line there live the most dolichocephalic, prognathous, curly-haired, dark-skinned of men — the true Negroes. Essays
• The Eskimo are small, dolichocephalic, and have a yellow skin; the Tehuelches are large, dolichocephalic, and have a reddish skin; the Polynesians are large, mesocephalic, and have a reddish skin. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
• And yet, as we have seen, it is more in this respect than any other, that human skulls vary, towards and from, the brutal type — the brain case of an average dolichocephalic European differing far less from that of a Essays
• “Notice the difference between the dolichocephalic and the brachycephalic in the Negroid skull,” Spencer says. Second Glance
• Seven are brachycephalic and seven are mesaticephalic while one is dolichocephalic (73.2). The Negrito and Allied Types in the Philippines and The Ilongot or Ibilao of Luzon
• In the remarkable paper read (1861) by Professor Busk before the Ethnological Society, that eminent physiologist proved that the Asiatic apes, typified by the ourang-outang, are brachycephalic, like the Mongolians amongst whom they live, or who live amongst them; whilst the gorillas and the African anthropoids are dolichocephalic as the negroes. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
• No one, he believed, had ever maintained that a mesocephalic skull was split or differentiated into a dolichocephalic and a brachycephalic variety in the bright sunshine of history. Scientific American Supplement No. 822, October 3, 1891
• The later ethnological misuse of ARYAN to signify not spiritual, but physical, characteristics, led the great Orientalist, Max Muller, to say quaintly: "To me an ethnologist who speaks of an Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar. Autobiography of a Yogi
• As late as the 1930s, adherents strove to transform unsightly round heads into long, dolichocephalic ones.
• Among the thirty-two men, nine are brachycephalic -- that is, their cephalic index is greater than 80; twenty of the thirty-two are mesaticephalic, with cephalic index between 75 and 80; and only three are dolichocephalic -- that is, the cephalic index is below 75. The Bontoc Igorot