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Illustration of a skull, viewed from the left side, showing the principal craniometric points. From Gerrish’s Text-book of Anatomy (1902) Frederick Henry Gerrish (1845-1920), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

How the racist study of skulls gripped Victorian Britain’s scientists

Elise Smith, University of Warwick

Craniometry, the study of skull measurements, was widely taught in medical schools in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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