Facial Recognition is Regurgitating Racist Pseudoscience from the Past

Franz Joseph Gall gained fame and notoriety in the 1800s for his theories about the mind. Gall believed that the shapes and bumps of the skull provided a lot of information about a person. These theories, phrenology, attributed skull shapes and bumps to personality, traits and morality. In the 1830s and 1840s, phrenology gained popularity in the USA. Based on skull measurements, physician Charles Caldwell claimed Africans were mentally inferior.