Facial Racism
Petrus Camper gained international repute among renaissance anthropologists, evolutionists and proponents of divisive scientific racism for his theory of the "facial angle" which they used as a vital cephalometric variable to validate their claim to racial and intellectual superiority.
Objective: To determine and document the facial angle of a sample population of adult Urhobo subjects, and compare obtained mean value with that established for other ethnic groups.
Methodology: Standardized left lateral facial cephalograms of 1000 Urhobo subjects, between the ages of 18 – 60 years, were collected over a 3-year period and subjected to geometric angular analysis to determine the magnitude of their respective facial angles.
Results: The mean
Objective: To determine and document the facial angle of a sample population of adult Urhobo subjects, and compare obtained mean value with that established for other ethnic groups.
Methodology: Standardized left lateral facial cephalograms of 1000 Urhobo subjects, between the ages of 18 – 60 years, were collected over a 3-year period and subjected to geometric angular analysis to determine the magnitude of their respective facial angles.
Results: The mean