biography
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Coon, Carleton (Stevens)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1904–81)
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| biography:
| Anthropologist, born in Wakefield, Massachusetts, USA. He studied at Harvard, and taught there (1934–48) and at the University of Pennsylvania (1948–63). His many expeditions led him to discover the remains of Aterian fossil man (North Africa, 1939) and the second Jebel Ighoud man (Sierra Leone, 1965). His books include The Seven Caves (1957) and Origin of Races (1962). In his later years his ideas were regarded by many as racialist, and were discredited because he contended that the Negroid race had not evolved as far as other races. |
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