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...last day on the job, Sigel says her employers took her to the School of Public Health to see the computer that tabulated the data from the cards she sorted. Sigel describes a machine similar to the Harvard Somatotyper which Sheldon used to transform bodily measurements into somatotypes...
...Sheldon, the main academic advocate of somatotyping, grew up in rural Rhode Island. His father, a naturalist, judged county animal fairs and taught Sheldon how to classify living things, says Ellery Lanier, a former protege...
...task of classifying animals eventually led Sheldon to develop a system of evaluating human body types...
Evidence of Sheldon's naturalist upbringing is said to be evident in his work--Atlas of Men, a coffee-table tome featuring hundreds of nude photos of the various somatotypes. The volume also contains epigraphs linking the different body types with animals...
...chapter describing extreme ectomorphy bears the title "Stingless Mosquitoes." Sheldon describes the lankiest men as "little male mosquitoes, frail waifs of the night...