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This is a list of units of measurement based on human body parts or the attributes and abilities of humans (anthropometric units). It does not include derived units further unless they are also themselves human-based. These units are thus considered to be human scale and anthropocentric.
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 ...
The book won Foyles Non-Fiction Book of the Year in December 2023. [3] In a review published in The Guardian, scientist Kate Womersley called the book "long overdue". [1] Writing for The New York Times, Sarah Lyall concluded the book was "engaging, playful, erudite, discursive and rich with detail". [4]
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.
The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey is a 2002 book by Spencer Wells, an American geneticist and anthropologist, in which he uses techniques and theories of genetics and evolutionary biology to trace the geographical dispersal of early human migrations out of Africa. The book was made into a TV documentary in 2003.
Relethford's research focuses on human population genetics and the evolutionary origin of modern humans. [1] For example, he has proposed his own version of the "Out of Africa" model, the standard theory for the evolution of modern humans; he has described his model as placing human origins "mostly out of Africa".
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 ...