gracilized
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
gracilized
- simple past and past participle of gracilize
Adjective[edit]
gracilized (comparative more gracilized, superlative most gracilized)
- (anthropology) Exhibiting a reduction in bone mass as the result of evolution.
- 1972 March 2, M Masali, “Body size and proportions as revealed by bone measurements and their meaning in environmental adaptation”, in Journal of Human Evolution, volume 1:
- The results show a fairly gracilized body build both in males and females, and a morphological convergence of the proportions of the two sexes.
- 2011, JH Hinshaw, “Darwinian Evolution and Social History”, in Journal of Social History, volume 45, number 1:
- Wade argues that our pre-gracilized ancestors lived in a world closer to Hobbes than Rousseau.