Re: [tied] Re: Cranial Indexing

From: Gerry Reinhart-Waller
Message: 13286
Date: 2002-04-16

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Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 5:19 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Cranial Indexing

> Speaking of taste, food is one of the things that can turn a population
> dolichocephalic in a single generation - food was Boas' explanation I
think.
> (Franz Boas... "found significant differences in cranial index between
> immigrant parents and their American-born children. The immutable
obtuseness
> of the brachycephalic southern European might veer toward the
dolichocephalic
> Nordic norm in a single generation of altered environment (Boas, 1911).)

This is an interesting post Steve. Could dietary habits (along with
religious practices such as compression of the head) be the major culprit in
determining how ergaster (for example) evolved into Homo? Just flying
kites.

Gerry Reinhart-Waller