By the end of the 18th Century, the act prohibiting the importation of the enslaved made it illegal to transport enslaved ...

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The pseudoscience, which involves drawing conclusions about a person from the shape of their head, was contested from its outset and widely discredited within decades. It also has deeply racist ...

Modern neuroscience has been accused of being a ‘new phrenology‘, but now researchers have conducted a modern evaluation of phrenological claims using neuroscience methods. In an enjoyable new ...

The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia wants you to adopt a skull. Among their strange and fascinating collection of medical artifacts and anatomical specimens is a collection of 139 skulls collected in ...

Somehow, amid a culture war backlash against Rachel Zegler, the actress starring in Disney‘s forthcoming live-action Snow White remake, the conversation turned to her appearance. That in itself is no ...

Some thinkers and physicians of the 18th and 19th centuries believed that the shape of a person’s skull could hold clues as to their psychology. In this Curiosities of Medical History feature, we take ...

Nobody really believes that the shape of our heads are a window into our personalities anymore. This idea, known as "phrenonolgy", was developed by the German physician Franz Joseph Gall in 1796 and ...

Assistant Professor in History of Science, Medicine and Colonialism, Leiden University It’s hard to imagine now, but people once believed that the bumps on your head could reveal your personality. For ...

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