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Skulls and Skin (Seeing White, Part 8)

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Samuel Morton's Collection of Skulls

Samuel Morton was a physician and president of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. He's considered the father of American physical anthropology because of his attention to data collection and measurement. The original part of it which is what Morton collected is about 900 craniards. Hour after hour, year after year with painstaking effort, he measured them.

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