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Carleton S. Coon
American anthropologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1904 to 1981 · aged 76
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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1981Died3 June 19811962Athenaeum Literary AwardAward1951Viking Fund MedalAward1945Legionnaire of Legion of MeritAward1904Born23 June 1904
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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
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Academics
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Lived 1904 to 1981 · aged 76
