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craniology

NOUN
  1. the scientific study of the skulls of various human races

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  • Frenchmen, on craniology, which is exceedingly interesting, but full of difficulty, and giving very diverse indications. Travels in West Africa
  • Now a common-place person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the Doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. Mr. Midshipman Easy
  • And thus was born phrenology (then called craniology). Bayblab
  • FW: Pseudosciences like craniology and phrenology in the 18th and 19th century were once used as a basis for scientific racism that dealt with the inability of certain races to have intellect – thus the bizarre depiction of "happy darkies" that the Gone With the Wind group loved so well. The WritingYA Weblog: Winter Blog Blast Tour, Day Three: M.T. Anderson
  • By the mid-nineteenth century there was little distinction between formal articles on craniology and studies by enthusiastic amateurs.
  • Now a commonplace person would have been satisfied with the recommendation of the medical man, who looks but to the one thing needful, which is a sufficient and wholesome supply of nourishment for the child; but Mr Easy was a philosopher, and had latterly taken to craniology, and he descanted very learnedly with the doctor upon the effect of his only son obtaining his nutriment from an unknown source. Mr. Midshipman Easy
  • The modern and quantitative study of craniology derives essentially from the nineteenth century.
  • One of the most eminent of the early researchers who used craniology to ‘prove’ intellectual inferiority of women was Paul Broca.
  • CraniologySkulls vary in size and shape, and the term craniology is applied to the study of these variations. II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull
  • It was predicated on the pseudo-sciences of eugenics and craniology.
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