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The Leading Writer on Racial-Trait Diversity, December 19, 2009
This review is from: Living Races of Man (Hardcover)
Nobody has written in more detail on racial traits than Carleton Coon. He took the spear
for biases that were once taught at Harvard and continue to this day in modified form.
Unjustly, he became odd man out instead of the giant in his field. He remains, for the deep
reader, the best writer on racial traits that the human race has produced. All his books are
big in scope and thought provoking. He backed a theory that sank like a stone, but his writings
outside that theory set the model for all other big books on insights into human evolution,
racial traits and ethnic diversity. This is a companion modern-day book to his masterwork
ORIGIN OF RACES, that met with strong liberal headwinds that bypassed the man's incomparable
insights into human diversity. Outdated but foundational. A bridge between Darwin and modern
paleoanthropology and its discontents.
Al Sundel
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Interesting, though outdated theories., September 18, 2007
This review is from: Living Races of Man (Hardcover)
The black and white photo plates showing stereotypical faces and bodies of various populations of people are really captivating. However, the analysis and the "scientific" theories about race in the book are quite outdated, like all of Coon's writings...
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