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Post by Noah on Aug 12, 2011 18:36:06 GMT -5
@ Leader Yeah, that's a classic study. Coon really knew what he was talking about. He was a quite learned scholar (check out this old Youtube video with him and other notable anthropologists from the period). He also had first-hand experience in the field since he lived in North Africa for a long period, and spent some time in Ethiopia as well; he actually wrote a novel on the place. The Indiana Jones adventurer/anthropologist was also based on him, by the way. Like Harrison Ford's character, Coon was involved in all sorts of adventures... only his were real. Coon, among other things, aided the North African rebels in their resistance struggles. There are also rumours that he was a CIA spy. Whatever the case, he was arguably the most accomplished and famous anthropologist of the past century.
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Post by theleader9 on Aug 13, 2011 3:35:38 GMT -5
@ Noah Yeah it amazes me that he noticed so much without DNA testing and a lot of what he said were proven through later on with DNA testing.
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Post by Noah on Aug 13, 2011 7:14:39 GMT -5
Quite true, Leader. Coon actually pioneered a lot of genetic-based population analysis in some of his later books, where he also refined his hypotheses. He also wrote one of the earliest, most detailed, and best books on racial adaptations that later authors would borrow liberally from.
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Post by theleader9 on Aug 13, 2011 13:05:27 GMT -5
Yes I know The Races of Europe, The White Race and the New World credit goes to Carleton S. Coon
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Post by hamiticsister101 on Aug 13, 2011 16:38:26 GMT -5
What they did back then is measure skulls and nasal indexes. Hamites were found to be Caucasoid.
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Post by theleader9 on Aug 13, 2011 18:13:26 GMT -5
Yep but some people in this world can't get passed the skin color.
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Post by Noah on Aug 13, 2011 18:21:40 GMT -5
@ Leader Yes, that's the full title of The Races of Europe, Coon's famous book from the 1930s that you linked to. However, by "white" he is not referring to skin color but to the Caucasoid race in general. This is something he points out in the book too. The later works I was referring to where Coon pioneered a lot of genetic-based population analysis include his The Living Races of Man (1965). And my reference to one of the earliest, most detailed, and best books on racial adaptations that later authors would borrow liberally from pertains to Coons' seminal Racial Adaptations, originally published in 1950. Have a look at this.
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Post by theleader9 on Aug 13, 2011 18:38:39 GMT -5
Interesting read brother many people disapprove of Carleton S. Coon just because naturally some of his theories were wrong because he for the most part relied on measurements.
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Post by Noah on Aug 13, 2011 18:46:56 GMT -5
Actually, Coon did not mostly rely on measurements. That's what people who don't like what he reports and have only glanced at his influential book The Races of Europe say.
The fact remains that that book was published early in his career, and was very advanced even for its time. Coon built on those findings exponentially in later years. His The Living Races of Man alone is filled with both anthropological and genetic facts. It's brilliant and generally spot-on, even after all these years.
Coon is also hardly the only authority that indicates those exact same things (i.e. that Ancient Egyptians were Caucasoid, etc.). The latest genetic studies likewise all but confirm this.
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Post by theleader9 on Aug 13, 2011 18:50:59 GMT -5
"His The Living Races of Man alone is filled with both anthropological and genetic facts. It's brilliant and generally spot-on, even after all these years" agreed
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