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The field of ergonomics employs anthropometry to optimize human interaction with equipment and workplaces. Anthropometry (/ ænθrəˈpɒmɪtrɪ / ⓘ, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος (ánthrōpos) 'human' and μέτρον (métron) 'measure') refers to the measurement of the human individual. An early tool of physical anthropology, it has ...
The history of anthropometry includes its use as an early tool of anthropology, use for identification, use for the purposes of understanding human physical variation in paleoanthropology and in various attempts to correlate physical with racial and psychological traits. At various points in history, certain anthropometrics have been cited by ...
Galton invented the use of the regression line [59] and for the choice of r (for reversion or regression) to represent the correlation coefficient. [ 47 ] In the 1870s and 1880s he was a pioneer in the use of normal theory to fit histograms and ogives to actual tabulated data, much of which he collected himself: for instance large samples of ...
Anthropometric history. Anthropometric history is the study of the history of human height and weight. [1][2] The concept was formulated in 1989 although it has historical roots. [3] In the 1830s, Adolphe Quetelet and Louis R. Villermé studied the physical stature of populations. [4][5] In the 1960s, French historians analyzed the relationship ...
Alphonse Bertillon (French: [bɛʁtijɔ̃]; 22 April 1853 – 13 February 1914) was a French police officer and biometrics researcher who applied the anthropological technique of anthropometry to law enforcement creating an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system used by police to ...
Adolphe Quetelet. Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (French: [kətlɛ] ⓘ; 22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) [ 1 ] was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences.
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans. [ 1 ] Social anthropology studies patterns of behavior, while cultural anthropology studies cultural meaning, including norms and values. [ 1 ]
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, engraving by Ludwig Emil Grimm. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (11 May 1752 – 22 January 1840) was a German physician, naturalist, physiologist and anthropologist. He is considered to be a main founder of zoology and anthropology as comparative, scientific disciplines. [ 3 ] He has been called the "founder of racial ...