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the class categories of ALEKSEYEV-DEBETZ is examined, further data can be obtained in regard of partly the rate and direction of the variability present in the Kál population, and partly the general morphological picture of the population itself. Table 11 renders superfluous a detailed descriptive characterization, thus merely the general characters will be referred to. Studying the distributional differences of the male and female data, it seems that the variation of the females is slightly less than that of the males,and thus the general morphological picture of the females appears in a clearer light. Beyond this, however, - as evinced also by the modal groups of the class categories -• the general morphological picture of the male and female skulls is essentially similar; in other words, there is no essential difference between them. Hence the morphological habit of the Kál population may in the followings be characterized collectively. Cranial capacity and circumference are medium and large. The majority of cranial length measurements refer to a medium and long form. The cranial index indicates mesocrany (ôâ 76.6, o_o_ 77.9/, approaching dolichocrany . The breadth measurements refer in most cases to a medium and broad form, the height ones to a medium and- low form. The latter statement characterizes primarily the facial skeleton. The quintuple class categories of the measurements and indices refer in two cases to a morphological differentiation within the material. In regard of the male biasterionic breadth (12),groups of a narrower and wider nape can be observed. Concerning stature data, the presence of a group of low and another one of tall individuals in both sexes, but primarily in the males, is observable. The special characteristic of the population at Kál is its great orbital width (d<5 43.1 mm, o_o_ 41.8 mm), accompanied in the males by an exceedingly vary ing height measurement; however 1 , in the majority of both sexes it is medium or low, its index value expressing chamaeconchy . The examined morphological features are summarized in Table 12. The view of the skull in norma verticalis is very variable. In the males, the frequency of the ovoid and spheno-birsoid form is uniformly rather high, whereas the ovoid shape is the most frequent in the females. The occiput is mostly curvoc cipital,and in some cases a lambdoid flatness can be observed. The orbita are subrectangular or rectangular, the nasal profile convex or straight in the males, and rather straight in the females. The fossa canina Is generally medium or deep. In some examined anatomical variations also sexual differences appeared (Table 12). Sutura me topica occurs slightly more frequently in the males; a generally weaker degree of torus palatinua is observable more frequently in the females, and the variations of the pterion area show divers frequencies between the two sexes. However, the small number of cases of the males and females considerably decreases the trustworthiness of the observed differences.
