Crania

... = 8,550. As we shall show, modern studies confirm racial differences in autopsied brain size. Many more studies have estimated brain size from cranial capacity for, as Baker (1974, p. 429) remarked, "Skulls are many, freshly removed brains are few." The cranial capacity literature, ...

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... verbatim his (1981) claim that S. G. Morton (1799-1851), one of the giants of 19th American science, 'unconsciously' doctored his results on cranial capacity so as to prove Caucasian racial superiority, despite the fact that when J. S. Michael (1988) remeasured a random sample of the Morton ...

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... widening and flattening of the nasal bones and aperture, maxillary development and upper rotation (Ibid). Keita (2004) found that European crania, relative to sub-Saharan African crania tend to have narrower faces in relationship to vault length. In this study significant variation among ...

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