Carleton S. Coon Quotes

1904–1981 United States

Carleton Stevens Coon (June 23, 1904 – June 3, 1981) was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He is best known for his scientific racist theories concerning the parallel evolution of human races, which were widely disputed in his lifetime and are considered pseudoscientific by modern science.

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If Africa was the cradle of mankind, it was only an indifferent kindergarten. Europe and Asia were our principal schools.

It is the retention by twentieth-century, Atom Age men of the Neolithic point of view that says: You stay in your village and I will stay in mine. If your sheep eat our grass we will kill you, or we may kill you anyhow to get all the grass for our own sheep. Anyone who tries to make us change our ways is a witch and we will kill him. Keep out of our village.

The Story of Man (1954)

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