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Autobiography of Carleton S. Coon (1904-1981), an American anthropologist and author of many works on the peoples of the Middle East and Africa.
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One of the most important anthropological overviews of European racial types ever published.Although some of its conclusions have since been eclipsed by DNA studies, this work remains a standard in racial typology.Harvard professor of anthropology, Carleton S. Coon, concluded that:- The white race is of dual origin consisting of Upper Paleolithic (mixture of sapiens and neanderthals) types and Mediterranean (purely sapiens) types;- The Upper Paleolithic peoples are the truly indigenous peoples of Europe;- The Mediterraneans invaded Europe in large numbers during the Neolithic period;- When reduced Upper Paleolithic survivors and Mediterraneans mix, a process of "dinarization" occurs which pr...
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Why is there so much conflict in the Balkans, the Middle East, Africa, and many other parts of the world? Is there something innate in human nature that makes it next to impossible to achieve peaceful coexistence? The answer, says career diplomat Carl Coon, must be sought in the distant prehistoric past when intergroup hostility became ingrained as a pattern of cultural evolution. For thousands of generations, our ancestors organised themselves in distinctive groups that competed with one another. Sometimes the competition was peaceful, but more often than not the struggle took violent forms.Today, we still witness the vestiges of these prehistoric roots when the intermingling of different w...
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