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"One can also justify racism in its various forms by invoking the ideas."

I'd only point to the countless threads posted to FR, with all the skull porn of which evos are so fond ... craniometrics are inevitably included. Quite the nasty, racist history behind measuring crania and attempting to deduce intelligence on that basis.

Quite the nasty, racist history behind measuring crania and attempting to deduce intelligence on that basis.

Your inflammatory descriptions aside, you're quite correct -- and the fact is that there was quite an "racial superiority" industry built on that basis. So much so, in fact, that Stephen Jay Gould felt compelled to write his "Mismeasure of Man" to address the issue.

I'd only point to the countless threads posted to FR, with all the skull porn of which evos are so fond .. craniometrics are inevitably included. Quite the nasty, racist history behind measuring crania and attempting to deduce intelligence on that basis.

Coyoteman, have you ever heard your posting of the pictures of skulls of prehominids called 'skull porn' and racist before?

Here for all to see is a fine and almost perfect example of an anti-science post combined with the vilest of ad-hominems.

I'd only point to the countless threads posted to FR, with all the skull porn of which evos are so fond ... craniometrics are inevitably included. Quite the nasty, racist history behind measuring crania and attempting to deduce intelligence on that basis.

Skull porn?

I happen to like skulls, and have been studying both evolution and human osteology since grad school (and that was a while ago). There is a lot to be learned from bones.

As for intelligence being based on cranial measurements--that was discredited long ago, 100+ years.

Herto skulls (Homo sapiens idaltu)

Some new fossils from Herto in Ethiopia, are the oldest known modern human fossils, at 160,000 yrs. The discoverers have assigned them to a new subspecies, Homo sapiens idaltu, and say that they are anatomically and chronologically intermediate between older archaic humans and more recent fully modern humans. Their age and anatomy is cited as strong evidence for the emergence of modern humans from Africa, and against the multiregional theory which argues that modern humans evolved in many places around the world.

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/herto.html