Multiple choice

Which of the following may be used as a tool in various attempts to correlate physical with racial and psychological traits?

  1. Physiognomy

  2. Reflexology

  3. Anthropometry

  4. Chironomia

  5. Cephalometry
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Explanation

Anthropometry refers to the measurement of a human individual. An early tool of physical anthropology, it has been used for identification, for the purposes of understanding human physical variation, in paleoanthropology and in various attempts to correlate physical with racial and psychological traits.

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