The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead by Ann Fabian

The Skull Collectors: Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead

Ann Fabian

288 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton's skull wound up in...

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