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as feet. In a mixed population there are many intermediate, exceptional, or ill-defined forms, 

 yet one or the other of the above types tends to predominate; even without mixture, however, 

 some individuals of a group will show one or the other of these types better or more frequently 

 than the other. 



In addition the hands, particularly, but in cases also the feet, show plainly the effects of 

 muscular work or of want of work. In the former case they are broader and especially thicker, 

 in the latter narrower and more delicate than the average. 



The hands of the academicians show the following conditions: 



Table 61. — Hand length 



