The Origin of Races

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.