How “caucasoids” got such big crania and why they shrank: from Morton to Rushton.
In the 19th century measurements of cranial capacity by Morton and others supported a “Caucasoid > Mongoloid > Negroid” hierarchy of intelligence. This continued through most of the 20th century but was challenged by a nonhierarchical view originating with Boas. Beginning in the 1980s Rushton corr...
| Publicado en: | Current Anthropology Vol. 42; no. 1; pp. 69 - 86 |
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University of Chicago Press
February 2001
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