Socio-anthropometry

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...Scandinavian representative of the Teutonic type. TABLE 12 Indices classified according to various authors Retzius Larsen Ribb'g Steensby Hansen Stevens'n Swedes...75.79 75.3 Norwegians 77.8-84 76.5 Danes 80 79 79-80 77.8 England. While Scandinavia's population is thus broadly depicted as tall, fair, and dolichocephalic, and strongly homogeneous, on the whole, England's population is, on the other hand, even more consistently Teutonic in being more uniformly regular in regard to head index, and more noticeably Teutonic in being a few centimeters taller than the Scandinavian. Racial homogeneity characterizes the British Isles, but the constituent parts, England, Scotland and Ireland form as do Norway, Denmark and Sweden in Scandinavia separate units within the whole. Further, because the British Isles were populated by Jutes, Angles, Saxons and Scandinavians, as we have mentioned above, the traits of these contributory peoples are to be noticed in the population of the British Isles to-day. True as it is that geographical isolation has played its part in producing uniformity of type, nevertheless, there are shire types in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales which recall old invaders of Great Britain. The bronze age is recalled by Cumberland types; Barley and Cornwall have cases which strikingly resemble men of old Britain, and the blond Anglo-Saxon reappears in Surrey and Sussex men. The Jutish type in Kent and the brunette Welsh in Cardiganshire and Montgomery also recreate old types. Thus it is to be inferred that although thoroughly Teutonic in the greater scope of its homogeneity Britain is nevertheless also pre-Teutonic in some of its racial elements. The dominant feature of the English population, and by English is here meant the entire population of ...