Contents

Acknowledgments 15

Introduction to the Revised and Expanded

Edition: Thoughts at Age Fifteen 19

The frame of The Mismeasure of Man, 19

Why revise The Mismeasure of Man after fifteen years?, 26

Reasons, history and revision of The Mismeasure of Man, 36

2. American Polygeny and Craniometry before

Darwin: Blacks andlndians as Separate,

Inferior Species Cfolj 62

A shared context of culture, 63

Preevolutionary styles of scientific racism: monogenism and

polygenism, 71

Louis Agassiz—America's theorist of polygeny, 74

Samuel George Morton—empiricist of polygeny, 82

The case of Indian inferiority: Crania Americana

The case of the Egyptian catacombs: Crania Aegyptiaca

The case of the shifting black mean

The final tabulation of 1849