The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould
MEASURING HEADS Francis Galton—apostle of quantification No man expressed his era's fascination with numbers so well as Darwin's ...
io 8 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN Quantification was Galton's god, and a strong belief in the inheritance of nearly everything he could ...
MEASURING HEADS seriously as a leading intellect of his time. The American hereditar- ian Lewis Terman, the man most responsible ...
3*1 Bean's plot of the genu on the y-axis vs. the spienium on the x-axis White circles are, unsurprisingly, for white brains; bl ...
MEASURING HEADS III Moreover, Bean did not neglect to push the corresponding conclu- sion for sexes. Within each race, women hav ...
112 THE MIS MEASURE OF MAN sufficient attention to become the subject of an editorial in American Medicine for April 1907 (cited ...
J* 2 Mall's plot of genu vs. splenium. Mall measured the brains without knowing whether they came from whites or blacks. He foun ...
II 4 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN Numbers and graphs do not gain authority from increasing precision of measurement, sample size, or c ...
MEASURING HEADS (1824-1880), professor of clinical surgery in the faculty of medi- cine, had founded the Anthropological Society ...
n 6 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN while more or less white skin, straight hair and an orthognathous [straight] face are the ordinary equ ...
MEASURING HEADS assume, that facts were his only constraint and that his success in affirming traditional rankings arose from th ...
118 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN the largest brain of France, remembered this African woman as he had seen her in the flesh. She had a ...
MEASURING HEADS I/O lian aborigines ranked below most African blacks, he chose the sec- ond course: "After this, it seems diffic ...
(^120) THE MISMEASURE OF MAN They have an affinity in negroes to those which they exhibit in apes, and establish the transition ...
MEASURING HEADS^121 methods of argument and inference. We also understand why data could never overthrow his assumptions. BIG-BR ...
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Spitzka's depiction of variation in brain size among white men of eminence. ...
124 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN fleshy [charnu] than the Frenchman—s'o much so that their relation of brain size to total mass, far fr ...
MEASURING HEADS 125 The small brains were troublesome, but Broca, undaunted, managed to account for all of them. Their possessor ...
126 THE MISMEASURE OF MAN by 16 grams to 1.19 percent above average—"not much for a pro- fessor of linguistics," Broca admitted, ...
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