What is your somatotype?

clownboots19: A mix of all, but mostly ecto.....knight, you should keep that new avatar of you up, it is a good one! I doubt anyone is throwing up from looking at it.

ravenously: I'm definitly Meso w/ ecto temperment. I agree w/ nlatimer and dr rock, I think this mostly psuedo-scientific crap (like freinology). But it's fun anyway.

I'm an ectomorphic mesomorph in build. Temperament-wise, I'm ectotonic.

Between Endo and Ecto in body type, yet between endo and meso in personality traits. I guess a pretty average guy.
I am also a Leo. I give the idea that body type affect personility as much credibility as astrology, ie: none.

I am tall (6'5"), 240 lbs and my endowment measures 8x7

A mix of ecto and meso here, I'm pretty skinny, but I still have a bit of muscle tone. More ecto though, as I'm not real muscly, but I do get pretty good grades and am pretty smart (not to sound concieted or anything) when I want/need to be. Wouldn't mind being a little more meso, it wouldn't look bad on me at all (like DMW, he's not exactly a giant (hieght-wise I mean lmao) but his build looks great on him)
I'm a Libra, maybe that leads to some of my ecto-ness?
Temperament-wise, I'm more ectotonic, but I have been known to be catatonic at times.....like...right....n.o...w......*stares into space, shaking slightly*..................APRIL FOOLS! lol

My personality is ectotonic and mesotonic, more ecto really but if I ever need to use my muscles then well I can use em ;)

I am somewhere between meso- and ectomorph in terms of physical build and a combination of the two in terms of the daily needs for physical activity [read sweat] and solitude [the house is mine after everyone crashes.] Stats: 6'4"/190 with 45 inch chest and 32 inch waist....runner/swimmer build.

About seven years ago the New York Times had a "science"report on the destruction of the 30,000 or so pictures of undergrads in the Ivies that provided the so-called basis for the psuedo-science of polymorphism. Yea, if you went to one of the Ivies in the first half or so of the 20th Century, you got your pictures taken front, side, and back wearing a disposable g-string. BTW this was a requirement for graduation....and not a cruel frat joke.

jay

I've always tended more toward ectomorph, but I have very broad shoulders (for whatever that's worth). Also have overly long arms, so it's hard to find shirts that fit.
The ectotonic type seems to fit me too closely for personal comfort. Who the hell has been looking over my shoulder to describe me that closely? I thought I was alone.

This is a spin off of an Italian physician's physical-type theories that were popular around 1890 - 1900. If I remember correctly, his last name was Lombroso. I suppose his "research" was done in a period when phrenology was widely accepted as valid science.

I forgot to mention I'm also somewhere between ectotonic and mesotonic.

Yep. Phrenology itself began with Franz-Joseph Gall (It's always those Austrians.) in the mid-18th century. To his credit, Gall was the first recorded physician to realize that different parts of the brain control different things. (We now know, for example, that the hippocampus controls memory and visual-spatial skills.) His big mistake was that he assumed all these organs would be on the surface of the brain.

By the late 19th century, phrenology had become much like astrology. With the advent of recapitulation theory, though, phrenology was back en vogue, and other organs were useful to physiognomy. Lombroso charted criminal rats, criminal doves, criminal ants, and, in the strangest anthropomorphism of all, criminal pitcher plants. Lombroso's school of criminology had many believers, including Maria Montessori. Apparently it's still popular with the LAPD.

Are you saying I learned to rob banks like a foxglove way back in Montessori School? I always thought my style was original and self-made. Damn!

PS. Can you guess my personality type?

I'm an endo/ecto mix.
yup.
just a mutt here.

Im really quite ectomorphic, I have not very broad shoulders and a quite slight build.

Endo/ecto mix probably. More to the ecto side for mental temperament, though.

I've seen this framework somewhere else before but can't place it.