A set of phrenology diagrams from the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.(Double M, Flickr.com, CC-BY-2.0) The skull of an unidentified Aboriginal man in the Melbourne Museum’s collection ...

Amanda Smith: On RN this is The Body Sphere, Amanda Smith with you, along with Alexandra Roginski, the author of The Hanged Man and the Body Thief, the body thief being the 19th century phrenologist ...

If this were the 19th century, Fox News' reigning talking head Tucker Carlson would be an old-school phrenologist. For those who don't keep track of racist pseudoscience or other tropes of social ...

In Laura Purcell’s early-Victorian shocker “The Poison Thread” (Penguin, 350 pages, $16), “nature vs. nurture” is the central conundrum. “That is the question I must ask myself,” says Dorothea ...

Since Darwin, scientists have been theorizing as to why there is variation in brain size between species and individuals. Does a larger brain, in say humans, indicate advanced cognitive abilities and ...

THE Todas are a pastoral hill-tribe in the Nilagiri region of Southern India, whose singularly interesting social condition fairly entitled them to be described in a volume by themselves. Colonel ...