Article ID: CBB000100495

“In Ways Unacademical”: The Reception of Carleton S. Coon's The Origin of Races (2001)

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Description Examines the controversy surrounding anthropologist Carleton S. Coon's 1962 book and his interaction with segregationist Carleton Putnam, geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky, and anthropologist Sherwood Washburn.


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Authors & Contributors
Collopy, Peter Sachs
Weindling, Paul J.
Weidman, Nadine M.
Troumpeta, Sevaste
Souza, Vanderlei Sebastião de
Selcer, Perrin
Journals
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Journal of the History of Biology
History of Science
Current Anthropology
Publishers
Routledge
Brill
ABC-CLIO
Concepts
Physical anthropology
Science and race
Evolution
Controversies and disputes
Eugenics
Darwinism
People
Dobzhansky, Theodosius
Washburn, Sherwood Larned
Montagu, Ashley
Wright, Sewall
Rensch, Bernhard
Mayr, Ernst
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Germany
Peru
Ukraine
Sweden
Greece
Institutions
UNESCO
Rockefeller Foundation
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