Blumenbach

It was a German anthropologist, Johann Blumenbach, who had deduced some years earlier that the “Caucasian” race present in Western Europe must have originated in the Caucasus Mountains, on the basis of the attractive dimensions of the skulls of local inhabitants.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

It was a German anthropologist, Johann Blumenbach, who had deduced some years earlier that the “Caucasian” race present in Western Europe must have originated in the Caucasus Mountains, on the basis of the attractive dimensions of the skulls of local inhabitants.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

It was a German anthropologist, Johann Blumenbach, who had deduced some years earlier that the “Caucasian” race present in Western Europe must have originated in the Caucasus Mountains, on the basis of the attractive dimensions of the skulls of local inhabitants.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

It was a German anthropologist, Johann Blumenbach, who had deduced some years earlier that the “Caucasian” race present in Western Europe must have originated in the Caucasus Mountains, on the basis of the attractive dimensions of the skulls of local inhabitants.

The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

And that awareness, the fact that we've moved beyond our Blumenbach view of world, makes us look smarter too.

From Savage to Savvy: A New Understanding of Chimps 2010

Field observations of great apes were long characterized by their Blumenbach-like sense of human superiority.

From Savage to Savvy: A New Understanding of Chimps 2010

Born in the small Transylvanian village of Körős and trained in philology and enlightenment epistemology by Eichhorn and Blumenbach at the University of Gottingen (where he joined two friends in an oath to seek the origins of the Hungarian peoples), Csoma undertook his "epic journey" in

Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism 2007

The latest woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach) in Europe and Asia: a review of the current evidence.

Introduction to Arctic Tundra and Polar Desert Ecosystems 2009

In final support of his more scientific, monogenist approach, Blumenbach posited the internal, biological force which generated racial difference, the “nisus formativus,” which when triggered by specific environmental stimuli generated the variations found within the varieties of humans

Race James, Michael 2008

In his doctoral dissertation, “On the Natural Variety of Mankind,” first published in 1775, Blumenbach identified four “varieties” of mankind: the peoples of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.

Race James, Michael 2008