The Origins of Phenology

Charles Darwin believed savage races like the Negro or the Australian were closer to apes than white western men. Sir Francis Galton, one of the founding fathers of eugenics borrowed terms from phenology when he stated that the average intellectual standard of the Negro race is some two grades below our own Anglo-Saxon. If your university bought any skulls in the 1800s or early 1900s, there is a very good chance major Mitchell or someone like him provided those skulls for profit via murder.