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ANT 82, Blue Age Anthropometry (original French title ANT 82, Anthropométrie de l'époque bleue) is a painting by French artist Yves Klein, created in 1960. Purchased in 1984, this work is part of the collection of the Musée National d'Art Moderne , in Paris .
A Bertillon record for Francis Galton, from a visit to Bertillon's laboratory in 1893. The history of anthropometry includes and spans various concepts, both scientific and pseudoscientific, such as craniometry, paleoanthropology, biological anthropology, phrenology, physiognomy, forensics, criminology, phylogeography, human origins, and cranio-facial description, as well as correlations ...
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.
Pages in category "Anthropometry" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The idea of a tree of life arose from ancient notions of a ladder-like progression from lower into higher forms of life (such as in the Great Chain of Being).Early representations of "branching" phylogenetic trees include a "paleontological chart" showing the geological relationships among plants and animals in the book Elementary Geology, by Edward Hitchcock (first edition: 1840).
She collected tree - ring specimens or inspected samples of archaeological wood from the University of Chicago's excavations in southern Illinois. In 1937, she continued her Midwestern dendrochronological fieldwork and collected 1000 living-tree specimens in eight different states in an effort to identify the climate signal recorded by trees ...
While Haeckel's tree is outdated, it illustrates clearly the principles that more complex and accurate modern reconstructions can obscure. The timeline of human evolution outlines the major events in the evolutionary lineage of the modern human species , Homo sapiens , throughout the history of life , beginning some 4 billion years ago down to ...
Two lectures to the Amsterdam Drawing society on the facial angle (1770) On the Points of Similarity between the Human Species, Quadrupeds, Birds, and Fish; with Rules for Drawing, founded on this Similarity (1778) Historiae literariae cultoribus S.P.D. Petrus Camper. A list of his work, published by himself.