Morton
The area of Morton's fame.
What is the collection and classification of human crania?
Josiah C. Nott was a follower.
Who is Morton, and the American School of Ethnography.
Believed the brain was the organ of the mind.
What is Phrenology?
This scientist’s theory of evolution by natural selection emphasized variation within species rather than fixed racial hierarchies.
Who was Charles Darwin?
Morton was initially cautious to avoid upsetting the orthodoxy, but at the end of his life, he became more strongly in this position.
What were Morton's feelings about Polygenesis?
The scientist whose ideas of evolution Nott employed in his rationale.
Who is Louis Agassiz?
What is Craniology?
Ethnology.
What is the study of human races.
Morton hypothesised this would allow for the ranking of races and determine intelligence, moral traits, and cultural development.
What did Morton believe the comparisons of interior cranium and measures of brain size would reveal?
The book that Josiah C. Nott collaborated with Egyptologist George R. Gliddon to produce.
What is Types of Mankind?
Phrenologists belived this was revealed by the bumps and shapes of the skull.
What is intelligence, personality, and morality?
Ideology which went against the biblical emphasis on one creation and instead emphasized the possiblity of many creations and questioned the biblical chronologically.
What is polygenesis.