Craniometry
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Craniometry is measurement of the cranium, usually the human cranium. It is a subset of cephalometry, measurement of the head, which in humans is a subset of anthropometry, measurement of the human bo
A human skull and measurement device from 1902
Pithecometra: In the frontispiece from his 1863 Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature, Thomas Huxley compared skeletons of apes to humans.
Anthropometry
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Anthropometry refers to the measurement of the human individual. An early tool of physical anthropology, it has been used for identification, for the purposes of understanding human physical variation
Craniometry
…cranium (the main part of the skull), usually the human cranium. It is a subset of cephalometry, measurement of the head, which in humans is a subset of anthropometry, measurement of the human body. It is distinct from phrenology, the pseudoscience that tried to link personality and character to head shape, and…
A Bertillon record for Francis Galton, from a visit to Bertillon's laboratory in 1893
Example insole (in-shoe) foot pressure measurement device
An early set of finger- and handprints by Sir William Herschel, 2nd Baronet (1833–1917)
2009 photo showing a man having a retinal scan taken by a U.S. Army soldier