Racial Anthropology:

Retrospective on Carleton Coon's
The Origin of Races (1962)

Edited by

Jonathan Marks

Kroeber Anthropological
Society Papers

Number 84, 2000

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Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers
No. 84, 2000

Racial Anthropology: Retrospective on Carleton
Coon's The Origin of Races (1962)

Guest Editor: Jonathan Marks
Contents:

Human Biodiversity as a Central Theme of Biological Anthropology: Then and Now

Jonathan Marks ............................................................  I
The Blood Group "Fad" in Post-War Racial Anthropology

Rachel Silverman .............................................................11
Reconciling Race and Human Adaptability: Carleton Coon and the Persistence of Race in
Scientific Discourse

Alan Goodman and Evelynn Hammonds ............................................................   28
The Dangers in Editing Human History to Fit Methodological Constraints in the Present

Robert Eckhardt ............................................................  45
On the Pattern and Origin of Human Biological Diversity

Kenneth Korey .............................................................  59

Racial Anthropology:

Retrospective on Carleton Coon's
The Origin of Races (1962)

Edited by

Jonathan Marks

Kroeber Anthropological
Society Papers

Number 84, 2000

Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers
No. 84, 2000

Racial Anthropology: Retrospective on Carleton
Coon's The Origin of Races (1962)

Guest Editor: Jonathan Marks

Contents:

Human Biodiversity as a Central Theme of Biological Anthropology: Then and Now

Jonathan Marks ...............................................................  1
The Blood Group "Fad" in Post-War Racial Anthropology

Rachel Silverman ............................................................... 11

Reconciling Race and Human Adaptability: Carleton Coon and the Persistence of Race in
Scientific Discourse

Alan Goodman and Evelynn Hammonds ............................................................... 28
The Dangers in Editing Human History to Fit Methodological Constraints in the Present

Robert Eckhardt ...............................................................  45
On the Pattern and Origin of Human Biological Diversity

Kenneth Korey ...............................................................  59