Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828) was a German neuroanatomist, physician, and philosopher, best known as the founder of phrenology, a now-discredited theory that correlates mental faculties and character traits with the shape of the skull. Gall proposed that different parts of the brain are responsible for different functions and that the development of these areas could be observed externally through the contours of a person's skull.
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