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gptkb:person
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1799-01-26
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gptkb:Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania,_United_States
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gptkb:Laurel_Hill_Cemetery,_Philadelphia
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gptkb:William_Morton
gptkb:Samuel_George_Morton_Jr.
gptkb:Mary_Morton
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gptkb:Stephen_Jay_Gould
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gptkbp:deathDate
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1851-05-15
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gptkb:Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania,_United_States
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gptkb:University_of_Edinburgh
gptkb:University_of_Pennsylvania
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gptkb:medicine
anthropology
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gptkb:Samuel_George_Morton
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Samuel Morton
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gptkb:Louis_Agassiz
gptkb:Josiah_Nott
gptkb:Paul_Broca
gptkb:George_Gliddon
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gptkb:Georges_Cuvier
gptkb:Johann_Friedrich_Blumenbach
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gptkb:craniometry
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racial theories
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gptkbp:legacy
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Morton's work is now widely discredited as pseudoscience
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gptkb:American_Philosophical_Society
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gptkb:American
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human skulls
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gptkb:Crania_Aegyptiaca
gptkb:Crania_Americana
gptkb:An_Inquiry_into_the_Distinctive_Characteristics_of_the_Aboriginal_Race_of_America
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gptkbp:religion
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Episcopalian
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gptkbp:spouse
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gptkb:Rebecca_Pearsall
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gptkbp:subjectOf
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gptkb:The_Mismeasure_of_Man
scientific racism debates
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gptkb:Samuel_George_Morton
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