<p>Pp. xli, 724, (xxi, index); 13 maps, 84 line drawings text, 32 black-and-white photos on glossy plates. Publisher's original one-quarter blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt, over black cloth-covered boards, lg 8vo. Coon argued that the races or subspecies of Homo sapiens evolved separately in different regions of the Old World. His most controversial hypothesis is that the world's races reached different levels on the evolutionary scale. Coon supported the regional continuity model of human evolution, which is now discredited. No ownership marks.</p>

The Origin of Races

Carleton S. Coon

Science & Math

Alfed A. Knopf, Inc

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Random House]

<p>The author of this book's Foreword, William W. Howells, says that in 1950 Carleton Coon published a small book which was the FIRST to attempt systematically to survey racial adaptations such as skin color, hair form, and body shape as adaptations to climate and habitat. "Racial Adaptations" is partly an extension and updating of the older one, as well as "The Origin of Races" and "The Living Races of Man."</p>

Racial Adaptations

Nelson/Hall

One of the most important anthropological overviews of European racial types ever published. Although some of its conclusions have since been eclipsed by DNA studies, this work remains a standard in racial typology. Harvard professor of anthropology, Carleton S. Coon, concluded that: - The white race is of dual origin consisting of Upper Paleolithic (mixture of sapiens and neanderthals) types and Mediterranean (purely sapiens) types; - The Upper Paleolithic peoples are the truly indigenous peoples of Europe; - The Mediterraneans invaded Europe in large numbers during the Neolithic period; - When reduced Upper Paleolithic survivors and Mediterraneans mix, a process of "dinarization" occurs which produces a hybrid with non-intermediate features, epitomized by the Dinaric race. Contains the full set of original photographic plates. Once a college standard, this book has been suppressed for 50 years.

The Races of Europe

Blurb

Measuring Ethiopia and Flight into Arabia

Little,Brown & Co

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