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  2. History of anthropometry - Wikipedia

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    Nazi Germany relied on anthropometric measurements to distinguish Aryans from Jews and many forms of anthropometry were used for the advocacy of eugenics. During the 1920s and 1930s, though, members of the school of cultural anthropology of Franz Boas began to use anthropometric approaches to discredit the concept of fixed biological race. Boas ...

  3. Alphonse Bertillon - Wikipedia

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    Class on the Bertillon system in France in 1911. Class on the Bertillon system in France in 1911. 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.

  4. Anthropometry - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Adolphe Quetelet - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] He also founded the science of anthropometry and developed the body mass index (BMI) scale, originally called the Quetelet Index. [4] His work on measuring human characteristic to determine the ideal l'homme moyen ("the average man"), played a key role in the origins of eugenics. [5] [6] [7]

  6. Craniometry - Wikipedia

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    A human skull and measurement device from 1902. 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.

  7. Category:History of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "History of measurement" ... History of anthropometry; B. ... This page was last edited on 27 April 2021, ...

  8. Anthropometric history - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Category:Anthropometry - Wikipedia

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    Anthropometric history; History of anthropometry; 0–9. 3D body scanning; A. Aline Systems; ... This page was last edited on 22 September 2024, at 03:27 (UTC).