Physiognomy as Morphological Ontology: Toward the Rehabilitation of a Discredited Discipline

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A deep dive into how AI, genetics, and biosemiotics are transforming physiognomy from discredited pseudoscience into a modern science of human form.
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This article argues that physiognomy, long dismissed as pseudoscience, is entering a scientific renaissance through AI, genetics, bioinformatics, and systems analysis—reframing the human face as a complex biological, psychological, and cultural code that can be studied, mapped, and understood.