"skull-measurer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1926, V. Gordon Childe, chapter 1, in The Aryans, page 4:",
          "text": "Language, albeit an abstraction, is yet a more subtle and pervasive criterion of individuality than the culture-group formed by comparing flints and potsherds or the \"races\" of the skull-measurer.",
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          "ref": "2021, Matthew W. Dougherty, chapter 5, in Lost Tribes Found: Israelite Indians and Religious Nationalism in Early America, page 136:",
          "text": "Some classified them as irreducibly distinct from Europeans while others, such as the prolific skull-measurer Samuel George Morton, classified them as nearly \"Caucasian,\" that is, White.",
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        "A phrenologist."
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        "(historical) A phrenologist."
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  "word": "skull-measurer"
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