Editing Anthropometry (section)

== History ==
{{main|History of anthropometry}}{{Expand section|date=April 2025}}[[File:Galton at Bertillon's (1893).jpg|right|thumb|180px|A [[History of anthropometry#Forensic anthropometry|Bertillon record]] for [[Francis Galton]], from a visit to [[Alphonse Bertillon|Bertillon]]'s laboratory in 1893]]

The history of anthropometry includes and spans various concepts, both [[scientific method|scientific]] and [[pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]], such as [[craniometry]], [[paleoanthropology]], [[biological anthropology]], [[phrenology]], [[physiognomy]], [[forensic science|forensics]], [[criminology]], [[phylogeography]], [[Anthropogeny|human origins]], and cranio-facial description, as well as correlations between various anthropometrics and [[personal identity]], [[typology (psychology)|mental typology]], [[personality]], [[cranial vault]] and [[brain size]], and other factors.

At various times in history, applications of anthropometry have ranged from accurate [[description|scientific description]] and [[epidemiology|epidemiological analysis]] to rationales for [[eugenics]] and overtly [[racism|racist]] [[social movement]]s.{{citation needed|date=April 2020}} One of its misuses was the discredited [[pseudoscience]], [[phrenology]].