Cranial Capacity of Real and Imagined Races of Man
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The fine art of turn of the century physical anthropology involved measuring the size of the skull (and therefore the size of the brain) to determine the innate capacity of the different "races" for civilization. It was commonly held that such morphological investigations had yielded "scientific proof" of the biological superiority of some races over others. This business was closely tied to Polygenism which emerged in the 18th century. Leading scientists considered races to be species separately created by God. After the acceptance of Darwinian evolution in the late-nineteenth century, the polygenic outlook was modified. The "races of man" were now thought to have evolved,
Cranial Capacity of Real and Imagined Races of Man
Cranial Capacity of Real and Imagined Races…
Cranial Capacity of Real and Imagined Races of Man
The fine art of turn of the century physical anthropology involved measuring the size of the skull (and therefore the size of the brain) to determine the innate capacity of the different "races" for civilization. It was commonly held that such morphological investigations had yielded "scientific proof" of the biological superiority of some races over others. This business was closely tied to Polygenism which emerged in the 18th century. Leading scientists considered races to be species separately created by God. After the acceptance of Darwinian evolution in the late-nineteenth century, the polygenic outlook was modified. The "races of man" were now thought to have evolved,