James Cowles Prichard
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James Cowles Prichard was a British medical doctor and ethnologist with broad interests in physical anthropology and psychiatry. His influential Researches into the Physical History of Mankind touched
James Cowles Prichard.
Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet was an English surgeon who became President of the Royal College of Surgeons of London and Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen.
James Cowles Prichard
…that people should be studied by combining all available characters. Three British men, all medically qualified and publishing between 1813 and 1819, William Lawrence, William Charles Wells and Prichard, addressed issues relevant to human evolution. All tackled the question of variation and race in humans; all agreed…
William Lawrence in 1839
Photograph of William Lawrence later in life