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Samuel George Morton (January 26, 1799 – May 15, 1851) was an American physician, natural scientist, and writer. As one of the early figures of scientific racism, he argued against monogenism, the single creation story of the Bible, instead supporting polygenism, a theory of multiple racial creations.
Biography. Samuel George Morton (1799-1851) was a successful physician, anatomy professor, and active member of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Morton is most remembered for his collection of human skulls.
It is generally agreed by historians of anthropology that Samuel G. Morton was a pioneer in American anthropology and the founder in this country of the sub-discipline of physical anthropology.
Cementing his reputation as the world’s foremost cranial collector, Morton published Crania Aegyptiaca (1844) in which he studied skulls and mummies sent to him by self-taught Egyptologist George Gliddon (1809-1857).
Samuel George Morton, anatomist, physician, and “ethnologist,” has been called the father of physical anthropology in America. Morton was born in Philadelphia, and his Irish immigrant father died when the boy was only six months old.
Samuel George Morton (1799-1851), a naturalist, anatomist, physician, and ethnologist, began his skull collection, in Philadelphia, in 1830. By the time of his death in 1851, Morton’s collection featured an unprecedented global display of the skulls of man, beast, and bird, forming a comprehensive cabinet of comparative anatomy.
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Samuel Morton, a Philadelphia physician and founder of the field of craniometry, collected skulls from around the world and developed techniques for measuring them. He thought he could identify racial differences between these skulls.
