As a category of theory, scientific racism employs anthropology ( notably physical anthropology ), anthropometry, craniometry, and other disciplines or pseudo-disciplines, in proposing anthropological racist world-views, based upon belief in the existence and significance of racial categories and a hierarchy of superior and inferior races.
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Sanielevici illustrated his point with craniometry, publishing comparative photographs of Jews and ethnically unrelated people ( Russians, superior race found in Atlantic Europe, the " Dalic " peoples stood above the " Dinarics " and the " Nordic " Germans the Nordics being a " gregarious " and easily dominated human group.
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In Morton's " Crania Americana ", his claims were based on Craniometry data, that the Caucasians had the biggest brains, averaging 87 cubic inches, Native Americans were in the middle with an average of 82 cubic inches and Negroes had the smallest brains with an average of 78 cubic inches.
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Camper's craniometry reported that antique statues ( the Gr�co Roman ideal ) had a 90-degree facial angle, Europeans an 80-degree angle, Blacks a 70-degree angle, and the orangutan a 58-degree facial angle thus he established a racist biological hierarchy for mankind, per the Decadent conception of history.
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In Germany, Rudolf Virchow launched a study of craniometry, which prompted him to denounce " Nordic mysticism " in the 1885 Anthropology Congress in Karlsruhe, while Josef Kollmann, a collaborator of Virchow, stated in the same congress that the people of Europe, be they English, German, French, and Spaniard belonged to a " mixture of various races, " furthermore declaring that the " results of craniology . . . [ are ] against any theory concerning the superiority of this or that European race " to others.
