Gracilize

Quick meaning: Gracilize is a verb meaning (anthropology) To exhibit a reduction in bone mass due to the process of evolution.

Meaning

(anthropology) To exhibit a reduction in bone mass due to the process of evolution.

Example Sentences

No exact racial diagnostics can be made on the basis of the preserved cranial parts, but still it is obvious that it refers to the Mediterranide race that began to gracilize.

The apparent absence of any apparent sexual or age-based divisions of labour contrasts strikingly with anatomically modern humans of the Pleistocene in which females appear to gracilize relatively quickly, implying perhaps a sex-based division of labour (Soffer 1994).

Word Forms

• gracilizes
• gracilizing
• gracilized

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include skeletalize, skeletonize, decrassify, skeleton, attenuate, attrition.

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