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the different grades of stature. In general the head shows larger 
size the more considerable is the height of the body, and vice versa ; 
however, in individuals above the average in stature the relative size 
of the head lags behind the body height, while in those of statures 
below the average the body height decreases in a more rapid ratio 
than the size of the head. The short men or women of any racial 
group, therefore, may be expected to possess heads absolutely smaller, 
but relatively to stature larger, than the tall individuals. 
Precisely such conditions as outlined above are shown by the 
Kharga natives. They appear clearly in the succeeding tables, the 
first of which gives the average head-stature index, with its range 
of variation, in this series of Egyptians, while the second exhibits 
the variation of the index with that of stature. 
KHARGA OASIS, MEN: THE HEAD-STATURE INDEX, OR PER-MILLE RELATION 
OF CEPHALIC MODULE (MEAN CRANIAL DIAMETER) TO 
STATURE (STATURE=1000) 
Number of observations : 150. 
Average: p^.o. 1 (ist 50: 94.0; 2d 50: 94.3; 3d 50: 93.7.) 
Median: 94. 1. Mode: 94.5 (94.1-95}. 
Minimum: 85.9. Maximum: 101.8. 
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1 Probable error = 0.169; standard deviation, <r, =3.066, 0.119; co- 
efficient of variability, C, = 3.258, it 0.127. 
The average head-stature index of the Kharga men with the mean 
body height of 163.8 cm., namely 94.0 (94 mm. of body height to 
each centimeter of the mean head diameter), is about equal to that 
of male whites of 170 cm. in stature (according to the writer's obser- 
