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gracilization
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Noun
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gracilize
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-ation
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Rhymes:
-eɪʃən
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gracilization
(
uncountable
)
(
anthropology
)
A
reduction
of
bone
mass
as the result of
evolution
.
2002
, Peter S. Ungar, Mark Franklyn Teaford,
Human Diet: Its Origin and Evolution
,
→ISBN
, page
28
:
The last ten thousand years have witnessed a
gracilization
of the human cranium — and masticatory complex, in particular.
