Pedagogical Anthropology

The Material Substratum of Life(38)--Synthetic Concept of the Individual in Biology(38)--Formation of Multicellular Organisms(42)--Theories of Evolution(46)--Phenomena of Heredi...

The Head and Cranium(187)--The Face(188)--Characteristics of the Human Cranium(191)--Evolution of the Forehead; Inferior Skull Caps; the Pithecanthropus; the Neanderthal Man(192...

Anatomical Parts of the Thorax(281)--Physiological and Hygienic Aspect of Thorax (286)--Spirometry(288)--Growth of Thorax(294)--Dimensions of Thorax in relation to Stature(295)-...

Anatomy of the Limbs(308)--Growth of Limbs(309)--Malformations: Flat-foot, Opposable Big Toe(311), Curvature of Leg, Club-foot(312)--The Hand(312)--Chiromancy and Physiognomy; t...

Pigmentation and Cutaneous Apparatus(320)--Pigmentation of the Hair(323)--of the Skin(325)--of the Iris(325)--Form of the Hair(327)--Anomalies of Pigment: Icthyosis, Birth-marks...

The Form(361)--Measurement of Stature(362)--the Anthropometer(363)--the Sitting Stature(365)--Total Spread of Arms(367)--Thoracic Perimeter(368)--Weight(368)--Ponderal Index(368...

Biographic Histories(404)--Remote Antecedents(406)--Near Biopathological Antecedents(407)--Sociological Antecedents(411)--School Records(411)--Biographic Charts(422)--Psychic Te...

Theory of the Medial Man(454)--Importance of Seriation(455)--De Helguero's Curves(460)--Viola's Medial Man(463)--Human Hybridism(466)--the Medial Intellectual and Moral Man(469)...

In order to _understand_ the practical researches that must be conducted for anthropological purposes, it is necessary to have an adequate preparation in the science of biology....

Having finished the study of general biological questions and of the body considered in its _entirety_, we may now pass on to analyse its separate parts, treating in connection...

The relation of the thoracic perimeter (circumference of the chest) to the total stature (see chapter on _Technique_) was called by Goldstein the _index of life_, in order to in...

The _sacrum_, formed by the union of the five sacral vertebræ, appears in the adult in the form of a bone that narrows rapidly from above downward in a general curve whose conve...

The study of the limbs is of great importance, because, although it is the special province of the bust to contain the organs of vegetative life, it is the limbs which render it...

_Pigmentation and Cutaneous Apparatus._--The outer covering of the body possesses an importance that is not only physiological, as a defense of the living animal, but biological...

_The Tongue._--The tongue may present morphological anomalies of great importance, since they are the cause of many defects of speech. Sometimes the tongue is too big--_macroglo...

The technique of anthropology consists, essentially, of two principal branches: 1. the gathering of anthropological data by means of measurements (anthropometry) and by inspecti...

Having taken measurements with the rigorous technical precision that is to-day demanded by anthropometry, we should know how to extract from these figures certain _laws_, or at...

The child, like every other individual, represents an _effect_ of multifold causes: he is a product of _heredity_ (biological product) and a product of society (social product)....

_Theory of the Medial Man._--_Measurements_ are used not only in anthropology but in zoology and botany as well; that is, they are applied to all living creatures; therefore ant...