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"Body-build and its inheritance" by Charles Benedict Davenport is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. It investigates how human body-build—especially the contrast between slender and fleshy types—varies through growth and across populations, and to what extent these differences arise from heredity rather than environment. Drawing on large family records, statistical analyses, and standardized measurements, it develops indices of build and examines patterns across sex, race, geography, and age. The work is a data-rich treatise for readers interested in anthropometry, growth, and genetic inheritance.
The opening of the work sets out the motivation from wartime army anthropology: striking diversity in young men’s physiques prompted a focused inquiry into the hereditary basis of build. The preface outlines abundant family data, measurement conventions (e.g., weight/height notation and chest-girth adjustments), and acknowledgments to contributors, then the contents
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