...aesthetics. At the end of Crania &gyptiaca, Morton makes explicit the conclusion impelling both volumes: "The physical or organic characters which distinguish...are as old as the oldest records of our species." No external cause — not climate, not the state of society, not the manner of living — and not even...

...challenge the idea of race as adaptation until the last sentence of Crania Aegyptiaca, and only implicitly: "The physical or organic characters which distinguish...are as old as the oldest records of our species." He argued in the text that environmentalist assumptions sometimes marred naturalists' observations...

..."characteristics" were now regarded as "independent of external causes." 2 Hence, they were original and primal: "The physical or organic characters which distinguish the several races of men," wrote Samuel Morton, "are as old as the oldest records of our species." 3 The idea of polygenesis itself...

...times was the same that it now is, that of servants and slaves" (Morton 1844:158). He finally affirms "The physical or organic characters which distinguish...men, are as old as the oldest records of our species" (Morton 1844:158). In this rather short work, Morton "scientifically" proved that the races of humankind...

...The hair of the Egyptians resembles in texture that of the fairest Europeans of the present day. 15. The physical or organic characters which distinguish...as old as the oldest records of our species." Such are the inferences to which our president arrived after his long and arduous studies. Dr. Morton, whose...

...Hair of the Egyptians resembled, in texture, that of the fairest Europeans of the present day. 15. The physical or organic characters which distinguish...men, are as old as the oldest records of our species. 11. Ehrenlerg's Researches on the Distribution of Microscopic Life. — The comparison of the microscopic...