craniometry
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- The cephalic index
- Craniometry and anthropology
- Cranial capacity, races and 19th–20th-century scientific ideas
- Craniometry, phrenology and physiognomy
- Criticisms and revival of past cranial theories in the 20th century
- Modern use
- See also
- References
- Sources
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Craniometry is measurement of the cranium (the main part of the skull), usually the human cranium. It is a subset of cephalometry, measurement of the head, which in humans is a subset of anthropometry, measurement of the human body. It is distinct from phrenology, the pseudoscience that tried to link personality and character to head shape, and physiognomy, which tried the same for facial features.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “craniometry” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.