Nell Ervin painter is the author of the history of white people. Martin didn't know this, but there's just no correlation between the volume of an adult human brain and that person's intelligence. Having a big body doesn't make you smart. Intelligence is vastly more complicated than the size of the brain pan.
Scientists weren’t the first to divide humanity along racial – and and racist – lines. But for hundreds of years, racial scientists claimed to provide proof for those racist hierarchies – and some still do.
Resources for this episode:
Fatal Invention, by Dorothy Roberts
The History of White People, by Nell Irvin Painter