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http://www.filemonster.net/en/file/10607/origs-zip.html complete book at this link.

Using a camera to digitise this book some it isn't as neat as if I had someone to sit down all day with a scanner.

An important book that should be properly online.

"HITHERTO, it has generally been held that the five races of man became differentiated only very recently, in the last few tens of thousands of years, after the appearance of Homo sapiens. But Dr. Coon, in the course of his researches, uncovered startling evidence indicating that, in fact, they had separated far down on the time scale, long before Homo sapiens appeared and at least as early as the time of the first Homo erectus.

Was it possible that races, like the species to which they belong, were capable of evolution? If so, much of-the evolution of the different existing races may have taken place separately and in parallel fashion over a period of hundreds, rather than tens, of thousands of years.

Dr. Coon began to collect every scrap of existing information about fossil man, to find out how many racial lines could be traced back to the earliest evidence of man's existence. He ended with five lines of descent each as old as man himself. Now, the possibility that races could be older than species had to be investigated. In order to reconstruct man's ancestral journey, Dr. Coon undertook no less than a vast scientific exploration in time and space.

What forces, he had to know, exerted pressure on that plastic primate, man, to make him evolve from a lesser to a more sapient state? To answer this most fundamental and exciting question of all, Dr. Coon drew on the resources of zoogeography, primate behavior, physiology, and social anthropology; he surveyed the rules of the formation of species, of the composition of populations, of systems of mating, and of geographical adaptation at different ecological levels; he delved into the records of paleontology and surveyed the relies and artifacts of a hundred millennia. With this marshaling of (continued on back flap)"