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What does craniometry mean?

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Noun
  1. The practice of taking measurements of the skull.
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Some of the examples he discusses may remind us of the metaphorical appropriation of biology by racist craniometry in the nineteenth century.
The nineteenth-century interest in craniometry had assumed that intelligence was both biological and inheritable.
The nineteenth-century interest in craniometry and the ranking of species and races had assumed that intelligence was both biological and inheritable.
This looked very much like some of the phrenology and craniometry that was being done in the 19th Century.
The Migration Theory has been called into question since 1980, based on genealogy, craniometry and archaeology.
The SAP physicians were far more rigorously quantitative in their craniometry.

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