Beyond the skull: debunking the myth of the natural-born terrorist

In 1870, the Italian physician Cesare Lombroso examined the skull of a dead thief named Giuseppe Villella and decided he had found the source of criminality. Villella’s skull carried a small depression that Lombroso compared to the skulls of apes and early humans, and from that single observation he built a theory that shaped criminology […]

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