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While someone said to be destructive would have prominence on the skull surrounding the top of their ear (Morin, 2014). Leaney, Enda (2006). "Phrenology in Nineteenth-Century Ireland". New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua. 10 (3): 24–42. doi: 10.1353/nhr.2006.0058. JSTOR 20558078. S2CID 144035028.

Phrenology received criticism from ecclesiasticism. Emperor Francis I prohibited Gall from publicly lecturing in Austria in 1802 on the basis that the ideas of phrenology were subversive to religion and morals (Morin, 2014). Unlike monogenists, polygenists regraded each “race” as a separate species. Thus, miscegenation (“the mixing of races”) was regarded as hybridity, analogized to the production of mules from horses and donkeys. 25 In France, Broca (1864) devised anthropometric methods to find subtle quantitative differences among different degrees of supposedly “hybrid humans,” using both cranial and other bodily measures. 26 In Sweden, polygenist Anders Retzius (1796-1860) devised the cephalic index to define racial types based on the ratio of the length and the breadth of the skull. He defined long-headed “dolicocephalics,” short-headed “brachycephalics,” and intermediates as “mesocephalics.” 27 Gall was more concerned with creating a physical science, so it was through Spurzheim that phrenology was first spread throughout Europe and America. [19] Phrenology, while not universally accepted, was hardly a fringe phenomenon of the era. George Combe would become the chief promoter of phrenology throughout the English-speaking world after he viewed a brain dissection by Spurzheim, convincing him of phrenology's merits.Craniology is the study of the skull. In the last few hundred years, craniological methods, like measuring the angle of the face, the size of the braincase, or the ratio of the length to the breadth of the head, have been used to classify people into racial groupings, to make claims about alleged differences in intelligence, and to study human variation. The study of medicine, anatomy, and art were all important to the development of craniology. Furthermore, craniology’s association with “race science” gave it widespread influence through the early 20 th century and closely connected craniology to the development of physical anthropology. Illustration of facial angles of humans, apes, and monkeys from Camper (1791). Christison-Lagay, K. L.; Cohen, Y. E. (2013). "The Neural Representation of Vocalisation Perception". Animal Communication Theory: Information and Influence. New York: State University of New York Press. As a result of this perceived threat, leaders and activists set up mechanisms to teach lower classes about their proper, subservient roles and society and to help them improve themself. At this same time, polygenists relied on heredity to explain human difference. Samuel George Morton (1799-1851), Josiah Nott (1804-1873), Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), and Paul Broca (1824-1880) all claimed that there were inalterable racial differences. Samuel George Morton’s craniological publications, Crania Americana (1839), Crania Aegyptiaca (1844), and The Catalogue of Skulls of Man and the Inferior Animals (1849) included measures of the “internal capacity” of the skull which contradicted Tiedemann’s findings. 20 Morton claimed that his measurements of the volume of the braincase showed racial differences in average brain size. Morton further suggested that differences in skull size showed a ranking of races based on cranial size, and therefore intelligence: Caucasians (especially Germanic Anglo-Saxons) were most intelligent, followed by Mongolians, Native Americans, Malays, and “Negroes.” 21 a b Branson, Susan (2017). "Phrenology and the Science of Race in Antebellum America". Early American Studies. 15 (1): 164–193. ISSN 1543-4273. JSTOR 90000339. Archived from the original on 2022-07-12 . Retrieved 2022-07-12.

a b c Wihe, J. V. (2002). "Science and Pseudoscience: A Primer in Critical Thinking". Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience. California: Skeptics Society. pp.195–203. In essence, Young argued that Gall’s methodology was circular, with each new case strengthening his belief that he had found a valid correlation (Young, 1968; Greenblatt, 1995). The mind was located in one of 26 distinct regions, or “organs”” with connective white matter in between. Followers of Gall would go on to add additional regions.

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After the execution, medical men descended on the corpses. They paid particular attention to the malefactors’ skulls, and the following day’s The Argus explained how “cerebral physiology” had revealed that both were, in effect, natural born killers.