Theories that hypothesize that a person’s personality can be inferred from physical characteristics. Hippocrates formulated the humoral theory while W. H. Sheldon and Ernst Kretschmer formulated the body structure or somatic-type theories.
The characteristic anatomical appearance of an individual, based on the appearance of an individual, based on the predominance of the structures derived from the three germ layers (ectoderm, mesoderm, endoderm). The three types are described as ectomorphic, mesomorphic, and endomorphic.
Classification of the human body according to muscle and fat distribution.