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Old January 29th, 2007 #1
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Default The Bushman Brain

"The anthropology of the brain, as Ariens Kappers indicates, is a subject which is worthy of being elevated from its present state of neglect. The present investigation was inspired by Woollard's paper on the Australian brain. Further grounds for recording this enquiry are the paucity of knowledge concerning the brain of this most interesting race, and the inevitability that such brains will become more and more difficult to procure..."

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/art...?artid=1248958
 
Old February 11th, 2007 #2
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Frontal and occipital flatness, as shown by Marshall's brain, is also manifest in this series, particularly in brain 2 (which seems to be the most primative brain). There is also a tendency to a "square-cut" contour at the occipital end, particularly in brains 2 and 3 - a feature which Duckworth says appears in lowly human brains and in brains of gorillas and other Simiidae and which he found distinct in one hemisphere of his Australian brains.
That confirms some things, lol.
 
Old February 12th, 2007 #3
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South Africa 1932 was a place rather different to South Africa 2007 .

From the above figures it is clear that the Bushman brain has (as one
would expect from its small size) an exceedingly small weight [1097 gm]. For comparison
we may cite Woollard's figures for three Australian brains: 1138*0, 1123*0,
and 1044*6 gm., and Kappers' average figure for Southern Chinese brains-
1239 gm., and for Dutch males 1322 gm. Villiger (6) gives the following list of
average weights for different races:

Caucasian 1335 gm.
Chinese 1332
Sandwich Islander 1303
Malay and Indian 1266
Negro 1244
Australian 1185

Thank the gods at least some articles are available to the public. I must say, all this restriction of access to online journals and papers ala ProQuest etc. and making money from publishing publicly funded academic research is a bloody disgrace.
 
Old February 13th, 2007 #4
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What a fantastic resource! Thanks for sharing.


J Anat. 1934 January; 68(Pt 2): 216–223.

The Brain of the Kenya Native

F. W. Vint

Medical Research Laboratory, Kenya

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The figures given by different authors for the average weight of the brain
in white races vary considerably. Shennan gives 1428 gm. as the average of
Gray, Cunningham, Luschka, Krause and Neuwerck. If this is the average
weight of the European brain, then the average brain of the African
native is 152 gm. or 10.6 percent lighter.

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J Anat Physiol. 1867; 1(2): 189–208

ACCOUNT OF THE DISSECTION OF A BUSHWOMAN. By
W. H. FLOWER, F.R.S., F.R.C.S., Conservator of the Museum of
the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and JAMES MURIE,
M.D. Prosector to the Zoological Society of London.

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" The mother has the usual falling off appearance of youth of the
Hottentots of thirty years old. Mammae flaccid and elongated. She
took up her appendages, leading the right one round the right side
above the gluteal projection, similarly, the left one round the left
side, their ends met at the spine! I am now perfectly convinced that
the organization is natural and congenital, and not produced, as has
been supposed, by the degraded and filthy habits of the tribe."
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Old February 13th, 2007 #5
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J Anat Physiol. 1896 January; 30(Pt 2): 259–274.

The Influence of a Previous Sire

A. L. Bell

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Instances of a white woman bearing children to a Negro and
subsequently to a white man are of necessity extremely rare in
this country, so that it is very hard to either prove or disprove
the American case by producing a case of the same kind. I am
glad to say, however, that as the result of numerous inquiries and
patient waiting, I am able to put forward a case exactly similar.
It is the more interesting and valuable that the offspring of the
Negro and the white man, from the same white woman, can be
seen and my facts verified by any one who cares to take the
trouble.

CASE.-A white woman, with brown eyes and fair skin, by name
Christina Jeffreys, belonging to Markinch, in the county of Fife,
bore a male child, on 1st November 1831, to a travelling showman
named Dusoes or Deseaux, a pure Negro. The child bears
his father's name, and is at present working as a mason's labourer
in Cowdenbeath. He is an ordinary Mulatto, with strongly
marked African features, black curly woolly hair and beard,
touched with grey, and having a congenital deformity of the
hands and arms. On the 5th July 1834, that is, 2 years and 9
months after the birth of the half-breed, the mother bore a child
to a white man named Moyes. The child's name is Isabella
Moyes, and she resides now in Markinch, where I saw and
examined her very carefully on the 10th October 1895. She
is a woman about 5 feet 8 inches high, with brown eyes, fair
skin, thin lips, straight well-formed nose, longish face, with the
features rather sharp, and coarse black perfectly straight hair;
the ears are small and thin in substance. There is not the
faintest trace of Negro blood in her form or features. I took
the dates of the birth of these two children from the flyleaf of
the mother's Bible, which Isabella Moyes kindly produced for
my inspection.
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Old February 13th, 2007 #6
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Trans Am Ophthalmol Soc. 1903; 10(Pt 1): 87–102.

Diseases of the eye in the white and negro races

Henry Dickson Bruns

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The social and economic position of the negro in the South
has its due effect upon the pathology of his eye. Thus injuries
to the eye by foreign bodies are comparatively rare, because
comparatively few of the race are artisans. On the other hand
severe traumatism- brutal injury -of the whole globe by
purposive violence or gross carelessness is common, and these
conditions are usually presented to us in a wretched state owing
to callous neglect or profound indifference. Tobacco and
whisky amblyopia and its incipient manifestation, or an allied
state, as a form of hemeralopia, is quite common; especially
among the gangs of railroad and levee laborers, who, working
far from bases of supply, are fed almost entirely on salt pork,
corn bread, and potatoes, and spend most of their cash for bad
tobacco and worse whisky
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Some things just never change.

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It is not unlikely that the apparent difference in liability between
the two races is largely due to the stolidity with which the black
race endures disease that does not cause disability or acute pain;
conjunctival catarrh when slight is not a condition that would
probably lead them to seek skilled medical attention. A degree
of redness and discomfort in the eyes that would drive any white
laborer to a hospital would probably be passed over by a negro
with the remark that he had "cotch cole in d'eyes," and an
extempore application of " jew water " or " bress milk " or
some more abominable collyrium.
Bah ha ha ha ha ha ha!
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