(SCIENCE) Tiedemann Friedrich Das Hirn des Negers mit dem de

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(SCIENCE.) Tiedemann, Friedrich. Das Hirn des Negers mit dem des Europaers und Orang-Outangs verglichen. 6 lithograph plates of brains. [9], 84 pages. 4to, original boards, minimal wear; minor foxing and dampstaining. Heidelberg, 1837

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first german edition, first published in English in 1836. The title suggests a hostile project: "The Brain of the Negro Compared with the European and the Orangutan." His research findings, however, showed that the Negro and European brains were indistinguishable, and that nothing in the physical nature of the brain supported a subservient relationship between the races.