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