The Reality of Race

If intellectual integrity is more than a vestigial characteristic of American social science, the volume under review will be recognized as a major turning point in physical anthropology. Professor Carleton S. Coon, who is one of its most original and distinguished exponents, has marshalled evidence from such diverse fields as genetic theory, zoogeography, human physiology, the archaeology of Pleistocene and human anatomy to trace the descent of man and the emergence of races.

Coon gives massive evidence in support of presapiens raciation—that is to say, that mankind divided into races before reaching the Homo sapiens stage. This conclusion, which was advanced a generation ago by the late Franz Weidenreich, is substantiated by Coon’s exhaustive anatomical studies of the relics of fossil man found in the 300-odd bone-bearing sites thus far uncovered.

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Nathaniel Weyl

If intellectual integrity is more than a vestigial characteristic of American social science, the volume under review will be recognized as a major turning point in physical anthropology. Professor Carleton S. Coon, who is one of its most original and distinguished exponents, has marshalled evidence from such diverse fields as genetic theory, zoogeography, human physiology, the archaeology of Pleistocene and human anatomy to trace the descent of man and the emergence of races.

Coon gives massive evidence in support of presapiens raciation—that is to say, that mankind divided into races before reaching the Homo sapiens stage. This conclusion, which was advanced a generation ago by the late Franz Weidenreich, is substantiated by Coon’s exhaustive anatomical studies of the relics of fossil man found in the 300-odd bone-bearing sites thus far uncovered.