SOCA02H3 Chapter 10: Chapter 10
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Dr. morton collected measured human skulls which came from various times and places (members of different races) He believed he could show bigger your brain, the smarter u were (measured volume of skull using cylinder) As he expected morton found that races in highest social hierarchy had biggest brains (whites of. European origin, next were asians, then native north americans) while those ranking lowest had smallest brains (blacks) claimed that social inequality had natural, biological roots. His ideas were used to justify 2 of the most oppressive forms of domination and injustice: slavery and colonization. Robbed egyptian skulls to do his study (65. 5 ml smaller for blacks) Morton claimed to be able to distinguish skulls of white and black ppl by shapes of skulls. I(cid:374)(cid:272)e its (cid:374)ot possi(cid:271)le to do so, mo(cid:396)to(cid:374)"s so(cid:396)ti(cid:374)g of skulls is i(cid:374)(cid:448)alid. Mo(cid:396)to(cid:374)"s skulls fo(cid:396)(cid:373)ed a s(cid:373)all, u(cid:374)(cid:396)ep(cid:396)ese(cid:374)tati(cid:448)e sample 72 skulls. Mo(cid:396)to(cid:374)"s (cid:396)a(cid:272)ial samples were incomparable w/ rest to gender.
