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The Anthropometric Detective and His Racial Clues

Wednesday 24 February 2016 at 19:38

Ava Kofman explores how the spectre of race, in particular Francis Galton's disturbing theory of eugenics, haunts the early history of fingerprint technology.

Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2016/02/24/the-anthropometric-detective-and-his-racial-clues/