Craniometry

Quick meaning: Craniometry is a noun meaning (especially physical anthropology, medicine) The practice of taking measurements of the skull.

Meaning

(especially physical anthropology, medicine) The practice of taking measurements of the skull.

Example Sentences

Similarly, some forensic companies have started to engage in “DNA phenotyping” – e.g. predicting skin color and facial features based on DNA data – something that’s best understood as 21st century re-run of long-debunked craniometry.

But regardless of what they made of phrenology, those who saw craniometry as a means of measuring the relative weight of intelligence and emotion in psychological makeup were generally sceptical as to whether, as Blumenbach and Camper believed, humanity had branched from one ancestral pair into varietal types as a result of colonising different continents.

Word Forms

• craniometries

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include craniometrics, craniography, craniology, craniognomy, cephalometry, cranioscopy.

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