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Raciology (also known as Racialism, Racial Science, & Racial Biology) is the study of human races, it is not used much in Anthropology anymore, & to many Anthropologists it is considered outdated, another version of Raciology is used by Sociologists & Anthropologists, to describe a socially constructed version of race.

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  • Urville-Patagonians3

    Homo monstrosus, or Patagonian giants, from Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Océanie (Voyage to the South Pole, and in Oceania), by Jules Dumont d'Urville

  • Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

    Johann Friedrich Blumenbach

  • Christoph Meiners

    Christoph Meiners

  • Georges Cuvier large

    Georges Cuvier

  • Arthur Schopenhauer by J Schäfer, 1859b

    Arthur Schopenhauer portrait

  • Scientific racism irish

    a late-19th-century illustration by H. Strickland Constable shows an alleged similarity between "Irish Iberian" and "Negro" features in contrast to the higher "Anglo-Teutonic"

  • Charles Darwin by Julia Margaret Cameron 3

    Charles Darwin in 1868

  • Arthur de Gobineau

    Portrait of Arthur de Gobineau by the Comtesse de la Tour, 1876

  • Black-and-white photograph of a man.

    Herbert Hope Risley

  • ErnstHaeckel

    Ernst Haeckel

  • Petrus-Camper-(professor)

    Pieter Camper

  • Ripley map of cephalic index in Europe

    Cephalic Index William Z. Ripley's European cephalic index map, The Races of Europe (1899).

  • Joseph Deniker

    Joseph Deniker

  • Madison Grant

    Madison Grant, creator of the "Nordic race" term

  • Samuelcartwright

    Dr Samuel Cartwright, M.D.

  • Francis Galton2

    Francis Galton in his later years

  • Dean's house Uppsala Sweden 001

    The Swedish State institute for racial biology, founded in 1922, was the world's first government-funded institute performing research into racial biology. It was housed in what is now the Dean's house at Uppsala and was closed down in 1958.

  • Lothrop Stoddard

    Lothrop Stoddard (1883–1950)

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