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632 wide regarded as a type of beauty. We know that the Basques are proud of this trait. May they not have evolved it, or at least perpetuated it, by sexual choice perhaps? This, of course, is



merely supposition on our part, but it seems to be worthy of mention.

The development of a facial type peculiar to certain localities is by no means a rare phenomenon. We shall have occasion to