Wot, even the Finns?

I haven't paid that much attention to Coon's "Origin of Races" but his later and humbler (1965) "Living Races of Man" is a treasure trove. (By the way, it includes a copy of Cavalli-Sforza's first genetic tree, so Coon was a proponent of genetic anthropology, the technology just didn't exist during his career.)

What mistakes did Coon make in categorizing racial groups? The biggest one was that he saw the fundamental divide in humanity running north and south through the big mountains of central Asia, with whites and blacks in one group and Orientals and Australians in the other. We now know that the fundamental divide runs east-west through the Sahara.

Other than that, he thought the Ainu were a Caucasian group, and he thought the Bushmen-Hottentots were different enough from Negroes to qualify as one of the six major races on their own.

But, that's about it. Otherwise, the correlation between Coon's 1965 classifications and Cavalli-Sforza's 1994 classifications are very, very high.

The color-coding of the map seems off to me. According to it, Indians are mongoloids (blue).

it's just a PC map from cavalli-sforza.

I'm late to the party, but I just found this post. I had to add that it just so happens that I finally checked out Steve Sailer's website after happing upon an article written by him for vdare yesterday. Though the initial article I found was nearly 7 years old, it coincidentally referenced this map. Sailer's take:

"Basically, all his number-crunching has produced a map that looks about like what you'd get if you gave Strom Thurmond a paper napkin and a box of crayons and had him draw a racial map of the world."

I laughed for 5 minutes.

Steve Sailer:
What mistakes did Coon make in categorizing racial groups?
Well, he also thought South Asians were basically Caucasians with a deep tan. Genetics paints a more complex picture.

Razib. Why confine it to just the last 10,000 years? Regional varieties are found in every species with a wide distribution. Surely it's how evolution usually proceeds?