1.Craniology, phrenology and eugenics, once-respectable fields of endeavour that are now regarded with a shudder, may shriek from time to time, but few sane people pay attention to them.
6.So, some psychologists may have emphasized Gage's recovery specifically to attack phrenology, and being able to recover did seem to argue against specialization.
7.Eventually, phrenology was dismissed as a cult pseudoscience because it turns out your cranial contours tell us exactly nothing about what's happening inside the brain.
8.But while Gall and Spurzheim bathed in the adulation and eventually fell out, by the way, serious scientists started to undermine the claims of phrenology.
9.Siberian colonies became a laboratory of ideas about the " Russian race." Large collections of " exotic" skulls made available by Captain Cook's South Seas voyages were linked to early research in phrenology.