Men of science and medicine may have fostered life ... rationalize their deaths and collect their skulls with casual cruelty from almshouse dissecting tables, looted cemeteries and body-strewn ...

That is, a sizable portion of the skulls in Morton’s collections were not culled from ancient graves but belonged to those of ...

Researchers think the individual, known only as HDL 6, is a mix between modern humans and an unknown hominin that existed in China at that time, Science Alert reported Monday. The skull has facial ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Pamela L. Geller, University of Miami (THE CONVERSATION) When I started my ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When I started my research on the Samuel George Morton Cranial Collection, a librarian leaned over my laptop one day to share some lore. “Legend has it,” she said, “John ...