Then in 1876 he accepted the chair of Forensic Medicine and Hygiene at the University of Turin, where later he became the professor of Criminal Anthropology. ... Additional he noted that there were physical marks and or characteristics that could be an indicator that an individual was atavistic. ... At the international congress of criminal anthropology in 1889 French delegates opposed his theories. ... Crime therefore stemmed not from what criminals had in common with others in society, but from their distinct physical of mental defects. ...

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