The process or evolutionary change toward developing a shorter, broader skull; the trend of becoming more brachycephalic.
From brachycephalic + -ization (suffix meaning becoming or transforming), describing evolutionary or developmental processes.
As humans evolved and agriculture changed our diets to softer foods, some populations' skulls became broader and shorter—brachycephalization is a real biological process, just not a meaningful way to classify human groups.
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