Prichard, James Cowles

WF Bynum, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London, UK

Published online: April 2002

DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002457

1786–1848 British physician and anthropologist who developed a model of human racial formation based on sexual selection and ideas of beauty.

Keywords: hard inheritance; geographical distribution; sexual selection; Blumenbach

Further Reading
	book Augstein HF (1999) James Cowles Prichard's Anthropology. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
	book Gillispie CC (ed.) (1970–1980) Dictionary of Scientific Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
	book Stocking GW (ed.) (1973) James Cowles Prichard's Researches into the Physical History of Mankind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.