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Once upon a time, people believed you could ascertain a person’s character and personality traits by examining the bumps and shapes of their skull. Such study was called phrenology and its proponents were not just people on the fringe; established scientists beieved such a “science” had merit. JSTOR Daily Membership Ad “In origin [phrenology] was distinctly medical,” writes Robert E. Riegel in a 1933 article published in The American Historical Review . “Its originators being the doctors François Joseph Gall and John Gaspar Spurzheim, who […]
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