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The Origin of Races Hardcover – January 1, 1962

by Carleton S. Coon (Author)
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  1. Print length
    724 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Alfed A. Knopf, Inc
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1962
  5. Dimensions
    9 x 7 x 1 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0394301420
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0394301426
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  • James Boyd
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hobbits and Giants in the Closet
    Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2015
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    Not commonly available , he wrote lot of my textbooks but is unPC and falling away . Nonetheless , a good source in this time of rapid discovery of new candidates for Homo species. Dennisovians and Hobbits ! Oh my ! How many more lurk in our genes and our wooded mountains ! A man ahead of his time and shoulders above present day anthro-apoligists.
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  • Toolie
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting un-PC look at human evolution
    Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2018
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    Fascinating book, you'd be ostracized if not jailed for writing this book in 2017. This is a book of serious scholarship with no PC filtering or influence.
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  • smAxe
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2015
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    great book - gets these race real books before they are gone - shipping did take longer than expected
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars fantastic
    Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2016
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    it arrived. fantastic result
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  • anunnaki
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2015
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    Great book
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  • highduke
    4.0 out of 5 stars remarkable insight for its time & despite the many errors much is still valid
    Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2005
    The first 100 pages read like Social Anthropology. The next 250 pages deal with animal anatomy and evolution. If you are not a student of Anatomy, you'll need to consult an encyclopedia 5 times per page in order to keep up. The last 400 pages deal with actual topic - the origin of races and you'll still need to keep the encyclopedia handy through that one. The glossary helps but sometimes you want more information. I learned so much from this book but only because I already knew which parts were discreditted by Genetics and which parts were still valid. For example:

    Coon's theory as he expounds it in this book was that Caucasoids, Mongoloids, Negroids and Australoids and their phenotypes evolved from Homo Erectus populations living in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. He was wrong about that. Coon also hints that Negroids and Australoids may have developed the least from their Erectus ancestors than Mongoloids and Caucasoids.

    Genetics has shown us that Humans evolved in Africa two million years ago, they entered Europe and branched into Caucasoids one hundred and twenty thousand years ago and branched into Mongoloids fourty thousand years ago in Asia. Nevertheless, it is possible to divide Humans into `races` under the same designations Coon used, (only today we call these 'human populations'). Cavalli-Sforza Genetic map of Human populations identifies Caucasoids, Mongoloids, Negroids and Australoids.

    Most of the other observations on evolution and anatomy made by Coon in this book are still valid and are remarkably well thought out in spite of the fact that all the man had to work with were bones and carbon-dating. However, Coon underestimated the influence of Genetic Drift and he writes it off completely before page 60. He wisely discounted the relevance of blood-groups to `race.` Coon also came out against designating the many European phenotypes as `races` like he had in 1939 in `Races of Europe`.
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  • Ken
    5.0 out of 5 stars Food for thought
    Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2014
    I didn't find it necessary to reach for references 5 times per page; was a fast, thought provoking, and entertaining read from beginning to end. Interesting is the 8 million year "missing pages" prior to Australopithecus and the Pleistocene; his Oreopithecus seems to be one of 4 miracle arrivals. That gives us a cross-eyed headache when wondering, not why so little evidence has been found, but why zero evidence has been found. Maybe that big desert has something yet to be revealed under all that sand - s/b well preserved. Oh, not about race. It is about searching for the source/expansion of our species. Not different in content or goal than Spencer Wells, THE JOURNEY OF MAN - A Genetic Odyssey, also an excellent read if you're one of the 'amazed to be here on this very special planet.' Asimov said "we are matter contemplating itself."
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  • ernest schusky
    4.0 out of 5 stars A Classic in Thinking about Race
    Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2012
    When Coon's work was first published, racists claimed it justified their thinking about white superiority. The bigots didn't understand Coon's arguments, but his idea of multiple orgins of race has not held up. DNA analysis and other research techniques show that humans did originate in Africa (as Darwin guessed), spread out from that continent, and through natural selection, mutation, and genetic drift became the 'racial' populations that exist today.
    I recommend the book for historians of race; it is important in the evolution of thinking about race.
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