The Origin of Races
Monograph
By: Carleton Coon
Date: 1962
Source: Coon, Carleton. The Origin of Races. New York: Knopf, 1962. Reprint, 1968, 658, 659–662.
About the Author: Carleton Stevens Coon (1904–1981) was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, and in 1928 received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Harvard University, where he taught from 1927 to 1948. During World War II, he joined the U.S. Office of Strategic Services in Africa. In 1948, he became professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and curator of ethnology at the University Museum in Philadelphia.
Introduction
A species consists of all the members of a group of plants or animals that can interbreed to produce fertile offspring. A human male and female are an example of members of a species, Homo sapiens, because they can have children who themselves can have offspring when they reach sexual...
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