Samuel George Morton

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According to Wikipedia, Samuel George Morton 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.

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Synopsis of the organic remains of the Cretaceous group of the United States. Illustrated by nineteen plates. To which is added an appendix, containing a tabular view of the Tertiary fossils hitherto discovered in North America. (120)
Crania Americana; or a Comparative View of the Skulls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America (93)
Types of Mankind: Or Ethnological Researches, Based upon the Ancient Monuments, Paintings, Sculptures, and Crania of Races, and upon Their Natural, Geographical, Philosophical, and Biblical History (1854) (90)
Crania Americana; or a Comparative View of the Sculls of Various Aboriginal Nations of North and South America: To Which Is Prefixed an Essay on the Varieties of the Human Species (1840) (84)
Observations on the size of the brain in various races and families of man (40)
Crania Ægyptiaca; or Observations on Egyptian Ethnography, Derived from Anatomy, History, and the Monuments (1844) (35)
On a supposed new species of hippopotamus (1844) (11)
XVIII. Illustrations of Pulmonary Consumption, its Anatomical Characters, Causes, Symptoms and Treatment. With twelve plates, drawn and coloured from nature. (1834) (2)
A memoir of William Maclure, esq., (1)
Description of two living hybrid fowls, between Gallus and Numida (1847) (1)
Description of two new species of Fossil Echinodermata from the Eocene strata of the United States (1846) (1)
Art. XXI. Illustrations of Pulmonary Consumption, its anatomical characters, causes, symptoms, and treatment, to which are added some remarks on the climate of the United States, the West Indies, &c., with thirteen plates drawn and coloured from nature. Second Edition. (1837) (1)

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