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English
Etymology
From gracile + -ize.
Verb
gracilize (third-person singular simple present gracilizes, present participle gracilizing, simple past and past participle gracilized)
- (anthropology) To exhibit a reduction in bone mass due to the process of evolution.
2001 June 29, PB Pettitt, “Neanderthal lifecycles: Developmental and social phases in the lives of the last archaics”, in World archaeology, volume 31, number 3: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).
1986, Anthropologie, volumes 24-25, page 171:No exact racial diagnostics can be made on the basis of the preserved cranial parts, but still it is obvious that it refers to the Mediterranide race that began to gracilize.