Editing Carleton S. Coon (section)

===Races in the Indian sub-continent===
Coon's understanding of racial typology and diversity within the Indian sub-continent changed over time. In ''The Races of Europe'', he regarded the so-called "Veddoids" of India ("tribal" Indians, or "Adivasi") as closely related to other peoples in the South-Pacific ("Australoids"), and he also believed that this supposed human lineage (the "Australoids") was an important genetic substratum in Southern India. As for the north of the sub-continent, it was an extension of the Caucasoid range.{{Sfn|Coon|1939}} By the time Coon coauthored ''The Living Races of Man'', he thought that India's [[Adivasis]] were an ancient Caucasoid-Australoid mix who tended to be more Caucasoid than Australoid (with great variability), that the Dravidian peoples of Southern India were simply Caucasoid, and that the north of the sub-continent was also Caucasoid. In short, the Indian sub-continent (North and South) is "the easternmost outpost of the Caucasoid racial region".<ref>''The Living Races of Man'', '''On Greater India''</ref> Underlying all of this was Coon's typological view of human history and biological variation, a way of thinking that is not taken seriously today by most anthropologists/biologists.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Non-Darwinian estimation: My ancestors, my genes' ancestors|first1=Kenneth M.|last1=Weiss|first2=Jeffrey C.|last2=Long|date=May 1, 2009|journal=Genome Research|volume=19|issue=5|pages=703–710|doi=10.1101/gr.076539.108|pmid=19411595|pmc=3647532}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/current/readings/templeton.pdf | title=Human Races: A Genetic and Evolutionary Perspective | access-date=2024-02-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://raceandgenomics.ssrc.org/|title=Welcome|website=raceandgenomics.ssrc.org|access-date=April 8, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1002/ajpa.20995 | volume=139 | issue=1 | title=Race reconciled?: How biological anthropologists view human variation | year=2009 | journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology | pages=1–4 | last1 = Edgar | first1 = Heather J.H.| pmid=19226646 }}</ref>