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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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The Leading Writer on Racial-Trait Diversity
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...
Published on December 19, 2009 by Alfred Sundel
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Interesting, though outdated theories.
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 However, the analysis and the "scientific" theories about race in the book are quite outdated, like all of Coon's writings...
Published on September 18, 2007 by Brian A. Block
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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The Leading Writer on Racial-Trait Diversity,
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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 Outdated but foundational.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
1 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting, though outdated theories.,
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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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Living Races of Man by Carleton S. Coon (Hardcover - Feb. 1973)
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