Per cent.
Lombroso 9
Kurella 8·2
(of 218
cases)
3. Abnormal width of frontal sinuses—
Criminals 13
(of 252
cases)
Skulls provided with “students’
sets” 4
4. Strongly developed superciliary ridges—
Lombroso:
Skulls provided with “students’
sets” 7
Criminal skulls (out of 253) 13
Kurella:
Living workmen 7
Living criminals 16
Italian murderers 41·7
5. High (internal) frontal crest. The mean height of the
frontal crest is normally 3·8 mm.; in criminals the mean
height is 5·4 mm. In 25 per cent. of criminals it exceeds
7 mm., and in 35 per cent. of these latter it is
associated with the presence of an internal occipital
fossa.
(_c_) _Marked Development of the Antagonism between Brain
Development on the one hand, and Development of the Facial
Portion of the Skull on the other, the latter predominating._
1. Strongly developed temporal crest, nearer than usual to the
sagittal suture.
Distance between the two temporal crests, measured across the
sagittal suture—
Mm.
Gorilla 0·10
Eskimo 80
Skulls provided with “students’
sets” 125
Skulls of murderers 70
2. Torus occipitalis—
Per cent.
Criminals (Lombroso’s results) 31·7
Murderers (Lombroso’s results) 75
3. Eurygnathism—_i.e._, abnormal breadth of the face at the
level of the zygoma. This is a common characteristic in
the oldest human remains (skulls from Gibraltar,
Cro-Magnon, and Furfooz), and in the lower races of to-day
(the circumpolar tribes).
Per cent.
Convicts sentenced for robbery
with murder 37
In 1,567 criminal heads 18
4. Excessive height of the upper jaw.
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