gracilizing

Verb

gracilize (third-person singular simple present gracilizes, present participle gracilizing, simple past and past participle gracilized)

1. To exhibit a reduction in bone mass due to the process of evolution.
   • The apparent absence of any apparent sexual or age-based divisions of labour contrasts strikingly with anatomically modern humans of the Pleistocene in which females appear to gracilize relatively quickly, implying perhaps a sex-based division of labour (Soffer 1994).2001 June 29, PB Pettitt, “Neanderthal lifecycles: Developmental and social phases in the lives of the last archaics”, in World archaeology, volume 31, number 3