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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.
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 ...
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 ...
Members of the American Anthropometric Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Pages in category "Members of the American Anthropometric Society" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Charity Adams Earley (née Adams; December 5, 1918 – January 13, 2002) was a United States Army officer. She was the first African-American woman to become an officer in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later WACs) and was the commanding officer of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, which was made up of African-American women serving overseas during World War II.
[21] [22] These include the US Department of Defense's Military Handbook 743A and the 2012 Anthropometric Survey of US Army Personnel. [23] These databases express the IPD for each gender and sample size as the mean and standard deviation , minimum and maximum, and percentiles (e.g., 5th and 95th; 1st and 99th, 50th or median ).
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The American Anthropometric Society, also known as the Brain Society, [1] was a Philadelphia-based anthropometry organization of physicians, scientists and intellectuals founded in 1889. Members agreed to donate their brains after their deaths for analysis by living members of the organization in order to correlate intelligence and other mental ...