Morton's ranking of races by cranial capacity. Unconscious manipulation of data may be a scientific norm

Science ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 200 (4341) ◽  
pp. 503-509 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Gould
Keyword(s):  
Cranial Capacity ◽  
Scientific Norm

The skull of Proconsul africanus: reconstruction and cranial capacity

Nature ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 305 (5934) ◽  
pp. 525-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Walker ◽  
Dean Falk ◽  
Richard Smith ◽  
Martin Pickford
Keyword(s):  
Cranial Capacity

scholarly journals A Cross-sectional Anthropomic Study of Cranial Capacity among Ukwuani People of South Nigeria

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (5) ◽  
pp. 72-82
Author(s):  
Dennis Erhisenebe Eboh ◽  
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Ewaen Churchill Okoro ◽  
Kingsley Afoke Iteire ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Cranial Capacity ◽  
Cross Sectional

Ontogeny of australopithecines and early Homo: evidence from cranial capacity and dental eruption

1995 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Smith ◽  
Patrick J. Gannon ◽  
B.Holly Smith
Keyword(s):  
Cranial Capacity ◽  
Early Homo ◽  
Dental Eruption

scholarly journals The British Association at Toronto

1898 ◽  
Vol 44 (184) ◽  
pp. 215-215
Keyword(s):  
Special Interest ◽  
British Association ◽  
General Interest ◽  
Cranial Capacity ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Range Of Variation

Sir William Turner's address to the Anthropological Section was of great general interest and of special interest to ourselves.On cranial capacity, ne arrived at the conclusions that this was greater in the European than in the savage, that the range of variation was also greater, that few male savage crania reached the European mean (1,500 c.c.), and that there is less difference between male and female crania in savages than in Europeans.

‘Polynesians’ in the Brazilian hinterland? Sociohistorical perspectives on skulls, genomics, identity, and nationhood

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ricardo Ventura Santos ◽  
Bronwen Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
New World ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Cranial Capacity ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Classification Schemes ◽  
Human Skull ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Genomic Study ◽  
The World

In 1876, Brazilian physical anthropologists De Lacerda and Peixoto published findings of detailed anatomical and osteometric investigation of the new human skull collection of Rio de Janeiro’s Museu Nacional. They argued not only that the Indigenous ‘Botocudo’ in Brazil might be autochthonous to the New World, but also that they shared analogic proximity to other geographically very distant human groups – the New Caledonians and Australians – equally attributed limited cranial capacity and resultant inferior intellect. Described by Blumenbach and Morton, ‘Botocudo’ skulls were highly valued scientific specimens in 19th-century physical anthropology. A recent genomic study has again related ‘the Botocudo’ to Indigenous populations from the other side of the world by identifying ‘Polynesian ancestry’ in two of 14 Botocudo skulls held at the Museu Nacional. This article places the production of scientific knowledge in multidisciplinary, multiregional historical perspectives. We contextualize modern narratives in the biological sciences relating ‘Botocudo’ skulls and other cranial material from lowland South America to Polynesia, Melanesia, and Australia. With disturbing irony, such studies often unthinkingly reinscribe essentialized historic racial categories such as ‘the Botocudos’, ‘the Polynesians’, and ‘the Australo-Melanesians’. We conclude that the fertile alliance of intersecting sciences that is revolutionizing understandings of deep human pasts must be informed by sensitivity to the deep histories of terms, classification schemes, and the disciplines themselves.

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