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English: Scan from The Mismeasure of Man , but originally from a mid-19th century work. A scientific demonstration from 1868 that the Negro is as distinct from the Caucasian as the Chimpanzee. Josiah Nott was a polygenist who believed that the "races" of man had always been separate. Shown heads and their supposed skulls. Text: "Apollo Belvedere, Greek, Negro, Creole negro, Young Chimpansee, Young Chimpansee"
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Source Moved here from the English Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Races_and_skulls.png , (deeper source) Josiah Clark Nott: Types of Mankind (1854).
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