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2 unusual facts about Gene L. Coon


Beatrice, Nebraska

Gene L. Coon (1924–1973), screenwriter and television producer.

Zefram Cochrane

Created by writer Gene L. Coon, the character first appeared in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Metamorphosis", in which he was played by Glenn Corbett.


Carleton Putnam

He was also the cousin of physical anthropologist Carleton Coon, with whom he corresponded closely regarding theories of anatomical and biological differences between human races.

Cheikh Anta Diop

Diop's view that the scholarship of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century was based on a racist view of Africans was regarded as controversial when he wrote in the 1950s through to the early 1970s, the field of African scholarship still being influenced by the scientific racism of Carleton S. Coon and others.

Formal studies of Bigfoot

Later scientists who were prepared to research the topic included Carleton S. Coon, George Allen Agogino and William Charles Osman Hill although they came to no definite conclusion and later drifted from researching the topic.

Franz Weidenreich

A vocal proponent of the Weidenreich Theory was Carleton Coon, however Coon modified Weidenreich's Polycentric view of evolution, since he stressed far less on gene flow.

Sonia Mary Cole

Cole is most remembered for her work Races of Man, which drew heavily from Carleton Coon.

Wesley Critz George

Among his correspondents in the North Carolina archive are Carleton S. Coon, James P. Dees, Henry E. Garrett, Luther Hodges, R. Carter Pittman, Carleton Putnam, Clayton Rand, and Archibald Roosevelt.


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