Many references to Australian Aborigines throughout - heat adaptation, blood groups, hair, taste, skin & eye colouring; physical characteristics generally.

Everyone talks about race, but no one who has not read this book knows what modern science says about it. This first detailed survey of the racial composition of all peoples of the world is a pioneer work, a landmark of scientific thought. In The Origin of Races, Dr. Coon advanced Darwinian theory beyond the origin of species to the myth-ridden subject of sub-species, or races. Here he applies his theory to all peoples of the world today, and tests it with fascinating new biological and anthropological evidence, such as the preponderance of certain blood types and fingerprint patterns in certain races and not in others. He advances new evidence of the importance of geography and climate in racial differentiation, and adds the varying degrees of resistance to disease as another powerful factor. For instance, people with a heritage of sickle-cell anemia can survive in malarial regions far better than others. Dr. Coon show why blondism prevails in northern Europe, how the marriage customs of the Japanese and Syrians affect racial traits, where the Polynesians came from, and why most African Negroes have a massive Caucasian heritage. From linguistics he draws much new evidence about the migrations of peoples and racial mixtures. Finally, he reviews all the classical evidence of anthropology to reach surprising conclusions I this monumental scientific work.

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