Carleton S. Coon
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Carleton Stevens Coon was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his scientific racist theories concerning the parallel evolution of human races, which were widely disputed in his lifetime and are considered pseudoscientific by modern science.
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![Photographs of men from northern Albania taken by Coon in 1929 and published in The Mountains of Giants (1950). This "descriptive" approach was typical of Coon's work in physical anthropology before World War II.[17]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Dinaric_Mountain_Gheg%2C_2_%28Carleton_Coon%2C_1929%29.jpg/500px-Dinaric_Mountain_Gheg%2C_2_%28Carleton_Coon%2C_1929%29.jpg)
Photographs of men from northern Albania taken by Coon in 1929 and published in The Mountains of Giants (1950). This "descriptive" approach was typical of Coon's work in physical anthropology before World War II.[17]
Carleton Putnam (1901-1998). Coon corresponded with Putnam about his book Race and Reason (1961), a defence of racial segregation and white supremacy, and resigned from the American Association of Physical Anthropologists when it passed a motion condemning it.
Mary Coon (née Goodale, left) was married to Coon between 1926 and 1944.Awards 3
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About this person
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Type
Academic
Status
deceased
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Lived 1904 to 1981 · aged 76
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