A Colorful Phrenolgy Head Chart
 Phrenology
is a theory which claims to be able to determine character and personality
traits and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head (reading "bumps").
Developed by German physician Franz Joseph Gall around 1800, and very popular
in the 19th century, it is now discredited as a pseudoscience. To make a
long story short, this 19th century belief that mental characteristics were
physically engraved in the brain, and were signified by bumps on the head
was replaced in the 20th century by studies like evolutionary
psychology, which holds that mental characteristics
are physically engraved in the brain because our ancestors literally had
to suffer bumps on the head (and evolve the wits to avoid them)...... and
this also will likely be considered a pseudoscience in the near future.
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