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1. A detailed account of the notion of genius until 1770 can be found in Tonelli(1974).

2. After Stephen Gould's recalculation of Morton's data, the highest cranial capacity turned up in Native Americans followed by Asians, Europeans, and Africans. Racial classification is, therefore, corrected but its overall reality supported Michael (1988, p. 354). As I show, similar clines can also be observed in other systems of measuring human variation such as dentition, linguistic diversity (typological and phylogenetic) and, finally, kinship systems. Intelligence tests were devised by psychologist, Alfred Binet, in 1905. Ashkenazi Jews show the highest IQ scores of all ethnoracial groups: Jews—115, Asians—103, Caucasians—100, African Americans—85 (Herrnstein & Murray, 1994). Native Americans invariably show significantly lower IQ values than non-natives (see, e.g., Church, 1976; Vraniak, 1994). In reality, therefore, the presumed correlations between cranial capacity and intelligence are ludicrously wrong.