n, Gould refers to the study of phrenology that had a great impact on the field of racial studies. Many craniologists have made false statements and documents about the skull structure of Africans. Besides the studies skulls which seemed to be most convincing, other scientists have compared other bodily structures to prove the biological inferiority of black people. In the first chapter of King Solomon¡s Mines, Allan Quartermain gives a detailed description of the two men that he met on Dunkeld, a ship on which they were aboard. He describes Sir Henry Curtis as ¡§one of the biggest-cheste
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