What the Skull Tells

摘要

Some psychometricians enjoy estimating the IQs of great men in history: Galileo, for example, purportedly would have scored an astronomical 185. Now researchers have for the first time tried doing it from skull measurements. Robert the Bruce, 14th century king of Scots, died in Scotland in 1329 at age 55. A highly accurate cast of his skull (right), made when his tomb was rediscovered in 1819, now sits in the anatomy department of the University of Edinburgh.