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Comparative anatomy, Monkey heads, Thomas Rowlandson: 1815

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Comparative anatomy Monkey heads T Rowlandson 1815
Comparative anatomy, Monkey heads, Thomas Rowlandson: 1815
Monkey heads with a small blue dot look especially like humans
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Thomas Rowlandson studied physiognomy, crainology, and comparative anatomy. He felt that human beings were close to the animal, even the inanimate due to age or excess. Rowlandson felt that people and art were focused on human apetites: sex, eating, drinking. Here we find an example of comparative anatomy. Recall, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace were not yet known, and the ideas of Charles Lyell had not yet been absorbed. Cultural Anthropology had not yet been studied, rather it was replaced by Racism based upon Physical Anthropology and the racism of such Enlightenment figures as Voltaire and Immanuel Kant.

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