The fault in his seeds: Lost notes to the case of bias in Samuel George Morton’s cranial race science

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Paul Wolff Mitchell

* E-mail: paulmit@sas.upenn.edu

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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