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Nature 406, 565 (10 August 2000) | doi:10.1038/35020648;

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Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828), the founder of phrenology, was derided for claiming that he could divine mental faculties by palpating bumps on the skull. Gall's theories were mostly nonsense, but they established a scientific truth that has strongly influenced modern neuroscience.

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