gracilized

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of gracilize

comparative more gracilized · superlative most gracilized

1. anthropologyExhibiting a reduction in bone mass as the result of evolution.

   Wade argues that our pre-gracilized ancestors lived in a world closer to Hobbes than Rousseau.

   2011, JH Hinshaw, “Darwinian Evolution and Social History”, in Journal of Social History, volume 45, number 1

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   The results show a fairly gracilized body build both in males and females, and a morphological convergence of the proportions of the two sexes.

   1972 March 2, M Masali, “Body size and proportions as revealed by bone measurements and their meaning in environmental adaptation”, in Journal of Human Evolution, volume 1