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See also:BRACHYCEPHALIC (Gr. for See also:short-headed) , a See also:term invented by Andreas Retzius to denote those skulls of which the width from See also:side to side was little less than the length from front to back, their ratio being as 8o to too, as in those of the Mongolian type . Thus taking the length as too, if the width exceeds 8o, the See also:skull is to be classed as See also:brachycephalic . The prevailing See also:form of the See also:head of civilized races is brachycephalic . It is supposed that a brachycephalic See also:race inhabited See also:Europe before the Celts . Among those peoples whose heads show marked brachycephalyare the Indo-See also:Chinese, the Savoyards, Croatians, Bavarians, Lapps, Burmese, Armenians and Peruvians . |
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