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' History of Human Marriage (thhd edition), pp. 283-28 1. lJi4 PRINCIPLES AND METHODS OF ANTHROPOLOGY, parents, has the head-form of the American-horn. Like head- form-, the stature of European-horn individuals has been found to increase the more, the younger they were at the time of their arrival in America. The width of the face decreases the more, the younger the child came to America. These facts would go to show a decided plasticity of human types. But, as Dr. Boas says, " the structural c...hanges which accompany the modifications "of gross form are entirely unknown, and the physiological functions which are affected by the new environment cannot even be Burmised^\ Much more extensive investigations are needed to understand the correlation between bodily form and function and outward influences. But one thing appears to follow from Dr. Boas' investigations: as he himself observes, "^ the old idea of absolute stability of human types must evidently be given up, and with it the belief in the hereditary superiority of certain types over others '\ It would be as unwarrantable to say that man has progressed from dolichocephaly to brachycephaly as the opposite suggestion made by Dr.
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