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See also:DOLICHOCEPHALIC (See also:long-headed)
, a See also:term invented by Andreas Retzius to denote (as opposed to " See also:brachycephalic ") those skulls the See also:diameter of which from See also:side to side, or the transverse diameter, is small in comparison with the See also:longitudinal diameter or that from front to back
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Retzius, though inventing the term, did not define it precisely
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See also:Paul See also:Broca applied it to skulls having a cephalic See also:index of seventy-five and under, and this limit is generally adopted
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Dolichocephaly, according to Retzius, was the distinctive See also:cranial feature of the earliest inhabitants of See also:Europe
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To-See also:day it is characteristic of the See also:negro races, of the
See also:Papuans, the Polynesians and the Australians, though among the See also:negritos and some of the pigmy races of See also:Africa brachycephalic skulls are the See also:rule
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Of the yellow races the See also:Eskimo is the most See also:dolichocephalic
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