OUR FACE FROM FISH TO MAN 



Quite recently Stockard has classified all human 

 faces under two general types, into which almost 

 all ordinary persons fall, the "linear'* and the 



Fig. 117. Stockard's Linear and Lateral Growth 

 Types (after Stockard). 



A. Infant; B. "Linear" adult; C. "Lateral" adult. 



"lateral" (Fig. 117). His linear type is that in 



which, owing to a high rate of metabolism induced 



by a highly active thyroid gland, growth along the 



long axis of the body (from the tip of the nose 



down the back) greatly predominates over growth 



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