INTRODUCTION
MODERN TENDENCIES OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND THEIR RELATION TO PEDAGOGY
The Old Anthropology(1)--Modern Anthropology(4)--De Giovanni and Physiological Anthropology(11)--Sergi and Pedagogic Anthropology(14)--Morselli and Scientific Philosophy(21)--Importance of Method in Experimental Sciences(23)--Objective Collecting of Single Facts(24)--Passage from Analysis to Synthesis (26)--Method to be followed in the present Course of Lectures(30)--Limits of Pedagogical Anthropology(34). The School as a Field of Research(37).
CHAPTER I
CERTAIN PRINCIPLES OF GENERAL BIOLOGY
The Material Substratum of Life(38)--Synthetic Concept of the Individual in Biology(38)--Formation of Multicellular Organisms(42)--Theories of Evolution(46)--Phenomena of Heredity(50)--Phenomena of Hybridism(51)--Mendel's Laws(51).
THE FORM AND TYPES OF STATURE
The Form(67)--Fundamental Canons regarding the Form(74)--Types of Stature, Macroscelia and Brachyscelia; their Physiological Significance(75)--Types of Stature in relation to Race(77), Sex(80), and Age(81)--Pedagogic Considerations(88)--Abnormal Types of Stature in their relation to Moral Training(91)--Macroscelia and Brachyscelia in Pathological Individuals (De Giovanni's Hyposthenic and Hypersthenic Types)(95)--Types of Stature in Emotional Criminals and in Parasites(101)--Extreme types of Stature among the Extra-social: Nanism and Gigantism(103)--Summary of Types of Stature(105).
THE STATURE
The Stature as a Linear Index(106)--Limits of Stature according to Race(108)--Stature in relation to Sex(111)--Variations in Stature with Age, according to Sex(118)--Variations due to Mechanical Causes(119)--Variations due to Adaptation in connection with various Causes, Social, Physical, Psychic, Pathological, etc. (124)--Effect of Light, Heat, Electricity(132)--Variations in Growth according to the Season(138)--Pathogenesis of Infantilism(151)--Stature affected by Syphilis (157), Tuberculosis(158), Malaria(160), Pellagra(161), Rickets(164)--Moral and Pedagogical Considerations(168)--Summary of Stature(170).
THE WEIGHT
The Weight considered as Total Measure of Mass(172)--Weight of Child at Birth (173)--Loss of Weight(176)--Specific Gravity of Body(178)--Index of Weight(181).