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wide regarded as a type of beauty. We know that the Basques 

 are proud of this trait. May they not have evolved it, or at least 

 perpetuated it, by sexual choice perhaps ? This, of course, is 



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Southwestern 

 France 



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] ATTEB COLLIGNON '95 

 AND OLOR12. 3b 



merely supposition on our part, but it seems to })e worthy of 

 mention.* 



The development of a facial type peculiar to certain localities 

 is by no means a rare phenomenon. We shall have occasion to 



* The apparentl)' contradictory low stature in Spanish Xavarra need not disturb us. 

 No attempt was made by Oloriz to differentiate the IJasciue half of the province from 

 the other. Hence the figures obtained are truly characteristic of neither. The data are 

 defective for all Spain, as compared with the detailed researches of Collignon upon the 

 French side. 



