
Part One: Phrenology: The Bastard Science of Racism
Behind the Bastards
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Is There a Difference Between Humanity and the Brain?
In 1800 Franz Joseph Gahl invented cranioscopy a method of determining someone's personality by measuring their head. In the mid-1800s an American anthropologist named Samuel Morton Theorized that intelligence and brain-sized were linked. So I just that a trend that we're starting to see here. It's basically like You start out scientifically maybe or with a good idea and then it just takes a hard left turn to But I think you look differently from me and therefore I'm superior to you.
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