History of anthropometry
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The history of anthropometry includes its use as an early tool of anthropology, use for identification, use for the purposes of understanding human physical variation in paleoanthropology and in vario
Pithecometra: In the frontispiece from his 1863 Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature, Thomas Huxley compared skeletons of apes to humans.
A head-measuring tool designed for anthropological research in the early 1910s. Theodor Kocher was inventor of the craniometer.
Illustration from "The Speaking Portrait" (Pearson's Magazine, Vol XI, January to June 1901) demonstrating the principles of Bertillon's anthropometry
A Bertillon record for Francis Galton, from a visit to Bertillon's laboratory in 1893
The Alienist
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The Alienist is a crime novel by Caleb Carr first published in 1994 and is the first book in the Kreizler series. It takes place in New York City in 1896, and includes appearances by many famous figur
History of anthropometry
…objective test that will identify their group membership without an interview. The Bertillon system was used by the detectives in Caleb Carr's novel The Alienist. Anthropometry – Measurement of the human individual…
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Ambulance standing outside Bellevue, a psychiatric hospital, in New York City in 1895