craniology

• “CraniologySkulls vary in size and shape, and the term craniology is applied to the study of these variations.”

  II. Osteology. 5d. The Interior of the Skull

• “Frenchmen, on craniology, which is exceedingly interesting, but full of difficulty, and giving very diverse indications.”

  Travels in West Africa

• “And thus was born phrenology (then called craniology).”

  Bayblab

• “My friend, a genetisist and anthropologist, once was at scientific conference in Columbia university and shown his results in ethnic craniology to his american collegue.”

  Academia, Harvard Law School, and freedom of speech

• “I am certainly developing the wisdom of the serpent, for when Mortimer pressed his questions to an inconvenient extent I asked him casually to what type Frankland's skull belonged, and so heard nothing but craniology for the rest of our drive.”

  Fictionaut: The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars

• “FW: Pseudosciences like craniology and phrenology in the 18th and 19th century were once used as a basis for scientific racism that dealt with the inability of certain races to have intellect – thus the bizarre depiction of "happy darkies" that the Gone With the Wind group loved so well.”

  The WritingYA Weblog: Winter Blog Blast Tour, Day Three: M.T. Anderson

• “Morton picked up his craniology from George Combe, a phrenologist who believed the brain housed all the organs of character.”

  Simon & Schuster: American Connections

• “The application of craniology to the Amazonian savages.”

  Soul

• “There has been far too much emphasis on the importance of craniology in anthropology; I myself have been guilty of this.”

  Soul

• “Does it not concern you that we are of differing opinions when it comes to craniology?”

  Soul

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