Could someone give me a concise description of what the terms Reduced and Gracilised mean?
Are they two seperate things?
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Could someone give me a concise description of what the terms Reduced and Gracilised mean?
Are they two seperate things?
I will go more extensively on this subject another time after setting some administrative procedures around my endpaper are behind me....Quote:
Originally Posted by Milesian
Gracilisation simply means that the general robusticity and coarseness in characteristics of skeleton and muscalature are attenuated or in decline.
Cranial and bizygomatic breadth are both markers for ascertain grades of robusticity.
Reduced pertains more to the body constitution and size, athrophy of the limbs and effacing sexual dimoprhism in either skull or/and post-cranial skeleton.
Today, both are understood as effect of a feminisation process, obliterating strong sexual deviance in physical design.
Ah, thanks for the clarification Frans :)
