The Living Races Of Man
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
A landmark work in the field of physical anthropology, The Living Races of Man presents a sweeping survey of human biological diversity as understood through mid-twentieth-century science. Carleton S. Coon, working alongside Edward E. Hunt Jr., chronicles the physical characteristics, geographic distribution, and evolutionary histories of the world's major population groups, drawing on decades of fieldwork, skeletal analysis, and ethnographic study to construct a comprehensive portrait of humanity in its varied forms. The work situates itself firmly within the tradition of classical physical anthropology, marshalling vast empirical data to argue that the story of human diversity is inseparable from the story of human migration, adaptation, and survival across vastly different environments. A product of its era, the book reflects both the ambitions and the controversies of mid-century anthropological science, and reading it today offers an invaluable window into how the discipline once conceptualised race, biology, and human origins. Coon's authoritative prose carries the weight of a scholar who spent a lifetime in pursuit of humanity's biological past, yet the conclusions he draws remain subjects of vigorous academic debate — leaving the modern reader to wrestle with the enduring and uncomfortable question of what science reveals, and what it constructs.
Author: Carleton S. Coon
Format: Hardback
Published: 1966, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Anthropology
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
A landmark work in the field of physical anthropology, The Living Races of Man presents a sweeping survey of human biological diversity as understood through mid-twentieth-century science. Carleton S. Coon, working alongside Edward E. Hunt Jr., chronicles the physical characteristics, geographic distribution, and evolutionary histories of the world's major population groups, drawing on decades of fieldwork, skeletal analysis, and ethnographic study to construct a comprehensive portrait of humanity in its varied forms. The work situates itself firmly within the tradition of classical physical anthropology, marshalling vast empirical data to argue that the story of human diversity is inseparable from the story of human migration, adaptation, and survival across vastly different environments. A product of its era, the book reflects both the ambitions and the controversies of mid-century anthropological science, and reading it today offers an invaluable window into how the discipline once conceptualised race, biology, and human origins. Coon's authoritative prose carries the weight of a scholar who spent a lifetime in pursuit of humanity's biological past, yet the conclusions he draws remain subjects of vigorous academic debate — leaving the modern reader to wrestle with the enduring and uncomfortable question of what science reveals, and what it constructs.