A new take on the 19th-century skull collection of Samuel Morton
Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 13:00
in Paleontology & Archaeology
In the 1830s and 1840s, American craniologist Samuel Morton collected and measured hundreds of human skulls in what he described as an attempt to compare the brain size of five human racial groups. At nearly the same time, across the world, German anatomist Friedrich Tiedemann was conducting similar research.