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Living Races of Man [Hardcover]

Carleton S. Coon (Author)
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  • Hardcover
  • Publisher: Random House (February 1973)
  • ISBN-10: 0394433726
  • ISBN-13: 978-0394433721
  • Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,630,567 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Leading Writer on Racial-Trait Diversity, December 19, 2009
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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 Outdated but foundational.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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1.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, though outdated theories., September 18, 2007
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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 However, the analysis and the "scientific" theories about race in the book are quite outdated, like all of Coon's writings...
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