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Perspective: A recent Colorado case highlights both great strides since the 19th century and unresolved issues.

, which argued that there were five separate racial groups — which were perhaps even separate species — distinguished by faulty measurement of crania. White people stood atop the hierarchy.maintained at university museums, collecting thousands of such pieces. These collections existed at schools ranging from Harvard University to the Medical College of South Carolina.

Sometimes, private cemeteries, seeking financial gain, also routed bodies to medical schools. In 1860, for example, for a price of $7, Harvard’s medical faculty purchased a recently deceased Native American man’s remains from the director of Mount Hope Cemetery. Harvard anatomists saw the Native man’s remains as evidence of innate racial differences and wanted a cast of his skull for their anatomical museum.

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