The Founder Of Forensic Anthropology Was Wrong About Everything

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Aleš Hrdlička is known as the founder of forensic anthropology, and remains a huge part of the story of the history of anthropology as a science. But his legacy of racism and just bad science is one that this field has been reckoning with for decades, and that work to undo his sordid legacy is far from done.

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