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Samuel George Morton (January 26, 1799 – May 15, 1851) was an American physician, natural scientist, and writer. As one of the early figures of scientific racism , he argued against monogenism , the single creation story of the Bible, instead supporting polygenism , a theory of multiple racial creations.
Samuel Morton, an American physician, used the study of human skulls to argue for racial differences in intelligence. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the idea that there are differences in the brain structures and brain sizes of different races, and that this implied differences in intelligence, was a popular topic, inspiring numerous ...
Samuel Morton's followers, especially Dr Josiah C. Nott (1804–1873) and George Gliddon (1809–1857), extended Dr Morton's ideas in Types of Mankind (1854), claiming that Morton's findings supported the notion of polygenism (mankind has discrete genetic ancestries; the races are evolutionarily unrelated), which is a predecessor of the modern ...
The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book by paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould.The book is both a history and critique of the statistical methods and cultural motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that "the social and economic differences between human groups—primarily races, classes, and sexes—arise from inherited, inborn distinctions and that society, in this sense, is an ...
The U.S. Federal Reserve is determined not to reduce interest rates too soon — and some economists say recent data has pushed a summer cut completely off the table.
They credited Jackson as the discoverer of etherization, and Morton as the first one to apply said discovery to surgical operations. [ 19 ] [ 21 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] In 2021, residents of the town of Jackson, New Hampshire , voted to replace President Andrew Jackson with Charles Thomas Jackson as the namesake of the town.
Samuel L. Jackson recently revealed he pushed for using a particular expletive — one that’s frequently featured throughout his films — in the 2006 action thriller “Snakes on a Plane.”
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