In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries ...

JOHANN FRIEDRICH BLUMENBACH, a pioneer in anthropology and craniology, was born on May 11, 1752, at Gotha. He studied medicine at Jena under Soemmering and qualified in 1776 at Göttingen ...

In his early works, the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach aligned his ideas with Haller’s perspective. However, he later diverged from this position, contending that male cells ...