Origin of Races, by Carleton Coon, a University of Pennsylvania professor and the president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, claimed once more to provide definitive proof that human races had separate origins. Coon identified five major races in hominid fossils and, based on cranial capacity, theorized that each had evolved toward modern Homo sapiens separately and at different rates—Caucasoids (Europeans) and Mongoloids (Asians) advanced the fastest, while Congoids (Africans), Capoids (the Bushmen of South Africa), and Australoids (Australian aborigines and nearby
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