Gracilize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To exhibit a reduction in bone mass due to the process of evolution.
"The apparent absence of any apparent sexual or age-based divisions of labour contrasts strikingly with anatomically modern humans of the Pleistocene in which females appear to gracilize relatively quickly, implying perhaps a sex-based division of labour (Soffer 1994)."
Example
More examples"The apparent absence of any apparent sexual or age-based divisions of labour contrasts strikingly with anatomically modern humans of the Pleistocene in which females appear to gracilize relatively quickly, implying perhaps a sex-based division of labour (Soffer 1994)."
Etymology
From gracile + -ize.
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