THE UNIFICATION OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL TYPE OF 

 ITALIANS AND ITS EUGENICAL EFFECTS 



MARCELLO BOLDRINI 



Professor of Statistics, Catholic University, Milan, Italy 

 [English Abstract] 



The author shows, on the basis of a body of statistical data, that, within a 

 period of more than 50 years, the body height of Italian males, at 20 years 

 of age, has considerably increased, and the variability of stature has de- 

 creased. Evidence obtained from experimental genetics and the statistical 

 investigation of human hybrids suggest that these phenomena depend both 

 on amalgamation between the three main racial stocks of Italian population 

 and the improved economic situation in Italy. 



By racial amalgamation the Italian population slowly tends toward 

 physical unity and the acquisition of some Eugenical benefits, viz., the 

 reduction of the frequency of some disadvantageous features, whose reces- 

 sive type of heredity is favoured by inbreeding, and the production of 

 hybrid vigor, both physical and mental. 



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