Sentences with craniometry
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C c - Some of the examples he discusses may remind us of the metaphorical appropriation of biology by racist craniometry in the nineteenth century.
- The nineteenth-century interest in craniometry had assumed that intelligence was both biological and inheritable.
- This looked very much like some of the phrenology and craniometry that was being done in the 19th Century.
- In the 18th and 19th centuries European and American intellectuals relied on craniometry to explain and defend racial hierarchy.