The Structure of the Human Brain
By John Allen, Joel Bruss, Hanna Damasio
Precise studies of the size and shape of the brain have yielded fresh insights into neural development, differences between the sexes and human evolution
This Article From Issue
May-June 2004
Volume 92, Number 3
Page 246
DOI: 10.1511/2004.47.246
If you lived in the 19th century, your entire character—attributes such as ambition, tenderness, wit and valor—might have been judged by the size and shape of your skull. This practice, called phrenology, was developed by Franz Joseph Gall and Johann Spurzheim in Vienna during the early 1800s.
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