I wrote about this too: expected to study blunders of naive craniometry/etc., to figure out what traps HBD should avoid, but it turns out they were pretty damn sophisticatedhttps://quaslacrimas.wordpress.com/2016/12/16/physical-anthropology-in-1950/ …
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(No real surprise once I thought about it: the traits physical anthro studies are all polygenic, so pre-1960s anthropology not only found the same results, but even reached them in the same way, i.e. with similar concepts/ways of thinking)
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Stuffing skulls full of marbles was a favorite bugaboo of SJ Gould. It turned out that later, more accurate measurements of cranial capacity (CT scans) showed an even higher correlation with IQ.
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I'm always amazed by how well Robert E. Howard, author of Conan the Barbarian, understood ancient prehistory (in the broad strokes). Gregory Cochran at times suggests Howard was more on the money than the big names of 20th century cultural anthropology.
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Surprisingly, you can still find some of Carleton Coon’s books on Amazon.
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