The former is called brachycephalic (short-headed), and the latter dolichocephalic. From Wordnik.com. [Rough Stone Monuments and Their Builders] Reference
Since the long - headed men first drove the short-headed men out of the best land in. From Wordnik.com. [Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society] Reference
In fact, it does not, for the long-headed are not long-brained, nor are the short-headed short-brained. From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
The race to which they belonged was brachycephalic, or short-headed, like the pre-Semitic Sumerians of Babylonia. From Wordnik.com. [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference
These tables show that aside from being more short-headed, this tribe differs little from the Bagobo, Bila-an, and Kulaman. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition] Reference
Negritos and Pygmies are everywhere brachycephalic, or short-headed, with the exception of the Bushmen, who are dolichocephalic, or partially so. From Wordnik.com. [Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution] Reference
He wears little or nothing; is armed with a throwing club (a long stick), or perhaps later a broad-bladed, short-headed spear of a pattern peculiar to boys and young men. From Wordnik.com. [African Camp Fires] Reference
The average person in each group is short-headed, yet long-headed individuals are found in every tribe and variations just as great as this appear in the other measurements and observations. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Tribes of Davao District, Mindanao The R. F. Cummings Philippine Expedition] Reference
Peters, with a short-headed miner's pick-axe, which he had used to steady himself, in his hand, was standing beside a small boulder, which loomed as a dark, purple shade under the cold, grey rain-clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush] Reference
And in the case of pet-dogs, the selection of small or short-headed individuals would imply the unconscious selection of those with less massive temporal muscles, and thus lead to the concomitant reduction of those muscles. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinism (1889)] Reference
Professor His observes that it exhibits, instead of the small and rounded form proper to the Danish peat-mosses, a type much more like that now prevailing in Switzerland, which is intermediate between the long-headed and short-headed form. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquity of Man] Reference
If, for instance, the term is used to designate the short-headed, medium-sized type common throughout middle Europe, from east to west, it denotes something entirely different from what is meant when the name is applied to the tall, yellow-haired opponents of the Romans and the later Greeks; while if used to designate any modern nationality, it becomes about as loose and meaningless as the term Anglo-Saxon itself. From Wordnik.com. [African and European Addresses] Reference
If, for instance, the term is used to designate the short-headed, medium-sized type common throughout middle Europe, from east to west, it denotes something entirely different from what is meant when the name is applied to the tall, yellow-haired opponents of the Romans and the later Greeks; while, if used to designate any modern nationality, it becomes about as loose and meaningless as the term Anglo-Saxon itself. From Wordnik.com. [II. Biological Analogies in History] Reference
"short-headed" cachalots; but as we secured five of them, averaging seven barrels each, with scarcely any trouble, I felt quite pleased with myself. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales] Reference
Approximately 15 amphibians are found in this ecoregion, including three endemics, Boulenger’s short-headed frog (Breviceps macrops), Namaqualand short-headed frog (B. namaquensis), and Bufo robinsoni. From Wordnik.com. [Succulent Karoo] Reference
This conclusion in itself would have been striking enough, but was made more startling when he announced that the change worked both ways: "The East European Hebrew, who has a very round head, becomes more long-headed; the south Italian, who in Italy has an exceedingly long head, becomes more short-headed"; and moreover this potent influence was alleged to be a subtle one "which does not affect the young child born abroad and growing up in American environment, but which makes itself felt among the children born in America, even a short time after the arrival of the parents in this country.". From Wordnik.com. [Applied Eugenics] Reference
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