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Mar 31, 1804 South Carolina, United States Died on 31 Mar 1873 (aged 69)
American surgeon
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About Josiah C. Nott
- Josiah Clark Nott (March 31, 1804 – March 31, 1873) was an American surgeon and anthropologist.
- He is known for his studies into the etiology of yellow fever. Nott, the owner of nine slaves, "used his influence and his science to defend the subjugation of blacks through slavery".
- He claimed that "the negro achieves his greatest perfection, physical and moral, and also greatest longevity, in a state of slavery".
- Nott was influenced by the racial theories of Samuel George Morton (1799–1851), one of the inspirators of physical anthropology.
- Morton collected hundreds of human skulls from around the world and tried to classify them.
- Morton had been among the first to claim that he could judge the intellectual capacity of a race by the cranial capacity (the measure of the volume of the interior of the skull).
- A large skull meant a large brain and high intellectual capacity, and a small skull indicated a small brain and decreased intellectual capacity.
- By studying these skulls he came to the conclusion of polygenism, that each race had a separate origin.
