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Morphologically the development of man is more accentuated than that
of woman. Anthropologists, indeed, regard woman as intermediate in
development between the child and the man.
The outlines of the adult female cranium are intermediate
between those of the child and the adult man; they are softer,
more graceful and delicate, and the apophyses and ridges for
the attachment of muscles are less pronounced,... the forehead
is ... more perpendicular, to such a degree that in a group of
skulls those of the two sexes have been mistaken for different
types; the superciliary ridges and the glabella are less
developed, often not at all; the crown is higher and more
horizontal; the brain weight and cranial capacity are less;
the mastoid apophyses, the inion, the styloid apophyses,
and the condyles of the occipital are of less volume, the
zygomatic and alveolar arches are more regular.[33]
Wagner decided that the brain of a woman, taken as a whole, is
uniformly in a more or less embryonic condition. Huschke says that
woman is always a growing child, and that her brain departs from
the infantile type no more than the other portions of her body.
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