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'''Carleton Stevens Coon''' (June 23, 1904 – June 3, 1981) was an American [[anthropologist]]. A professor of anthropology at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], lecturer and professor at [[Harvard University]], he was president of the [[American Association of Physical Anthropologists]].<ref>[http://collopy.net/projects/2009/race.html "Race" Relations: Montagu, Dobzhansky, Coon, and the Divergence of Race Concepts] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723045713/http://collopy.net/projects/2009/race.html |date=July 23, 2011 }}</ref>
==Early life and education==
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Although some of these interpersonal conflicts faded over time—Coon wrote that he had "buried the now‐rusty hatchet" with Dobzhansky in a letter to him in 1975—the animosity between Coon and Montagu was severe and lasting. Before 1962, the two were on friendly terms, but represented rival schools of anthropology (Coon studied under Hooton at Harvard; Montagu under Boas at Columbia), and Coon privately disdained his work.<ref name=":6" /> After the publication of ''Origins'', they engaged in a lengthy correspondence, published in ''Current Anthropology'', that "consisted almost entirely of bickering over minutiae, name calling, and sarcasm".<ref name=":6" /> Privately, Coon suspected Montagu (a target of [[McCarthyism]]) of [[Communism|communist]] sympathies and of turning Dobzhansky and others against him.<ref name=":6" /> As late as 1977, he was quoted as saying to a colleague, "You had Ashley Montagu in your office? And you didn't shoot him?"{{Sfn|Shipman|1994|pp=283–284}} The enmity was reciprocated; in a 1974 letter to [[Stephen Jay Gould]], Montagu wrote, "Coon… is a racist and an antisemite, as I know well, so when you describe Coon's letter to the editor of ''Natural History'' as 'amusing' I understand exactly what you mean—but it is so in exactly the same sense as ''Mein Kampf'' was 'amusing'."<ref name=":6" />
Coon continued to write and defend his work until his death, publishing two volumes of memoirs in 1980 and 1981.<ref name="SmIns">[http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/guide/_c3.htm ''National Anthropological Archives'', "Coon, Carleton Stevens (1904-1981), Papers"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060401021454/http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/guide/_c3.htm |date=April 1, 2006 }}</ref> Coon's theories on race were widely disputed in his lifetime{{Sfn|Jackson|2001}} and are considered [[pseudoscientific]] in modern anthropology.<ref name=":6">{{Cite journal|last=Sachs Collopy|first=Peter|date=2015|title=Race Relationships: Collegiality and Demarcation in Physical Anthropology|journal=Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences|language=en|volume=51|issue=3|pages=237–260|doi=10.1002/jhbs.21728|pmid=25950769}}</ref>{{Sfn|Spickard|2016|p=157|ps=, "For more than four decades beginning in the late 1930s, the Harvard anthropologist Carleton Coon wrote a series of big books for an ever shrinking audience in which he pushed a pseudoscientific racial angle of analysis."}}{{Sfn|Selcer|2012|p=S180|ps=, "Most disturbingly for liberal anthropologists, the new generation of racist "pseudoscience" threatened to return to mainstream respectability in 1962 with the publication of Carleton Coon's ''The Origin of Races'' (Coon 1962)."}}{{Sfn|Loewen|2005|p=462|ps=, "Carleton Coon, whose ''The Origin of Races'' [...] claimed that ''Homo sapiens'' evolved five different times, blacks last. Its poor reception by anthropologists, followed by evidence from archaeology and paleontology that mankind evolved once, and in Africa, finally put an end to such pseudoscience."}}{{Sfn|Regal|2011|pp=93–94|ps=, "Carleton Coon fully embraced typology as a way to determine the basis of racial and ethnic difference .... Unfortunately for him, American anthropology increasingly equated typology with pseudoscience."}}
== Other work ==
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