ANTHROPOLOGIST

Carleton S. Coon

1904 - 1981

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Carleton Stevens Coon (June 23, 1904 – June 3, 1981) was an American anthropologist. A professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, lecturer and professor at Harvard University, he was president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carleton S. Coon has received more than 336,922 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Carleton S. Coon is the 80th most popular anthropologist (down from 75th in 2019), the 8,060th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,958th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Anthropologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 340k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.19

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.69

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Carleton S. Coons by language

Over the past year Carleton S. Coon has had the most page views in the with 35,063 views, followed by Russian (2,996), and French (2,736). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (83.13%), Egyptian Arabic (66.85%), and Mazandarani (62.05%)

Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Carleton S. Coon ranks 80 out of 93. Before him are Julio Caro Baroja, Dmitry Anuchin, Vladimir Bogoraz, Eric Wolf, Marcellin Boule, and Ashley Montagu. After him are Françoise Héritier, Marilyn Strathern, Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Hugh Falconer, W. H. R. Rivers, and Grete Mostny.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Carleton S. Coon ranks 279. Before him are Rafael Méndez, Puck van Heel, Oliver Macdonald, Sadi Irmak, George Stibitz, and Hans Lewy. After him are Francisco Garza Gutiérrez, Antero Kivi, Vladimir Makogonov, Anton Janda, Arthur F. Burns, and Henry Dreyfuss. Among people deceased in 1981, Carleton S. Coon ranks 215. Before him are Robert Moses, Guy Butler, Francesca Woodman, Leonard Howell, Paolo Mazza, and Paddy Chayefsky. After him are Jakob Bender, Hermann Pilnik, Antero Kivi, Antonio Suárez, Stefanie Clausen, and Nikolay Timofeev-Ressovsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Carleton S. Coon ranks 8,060 out of 20,380. Before him are William H. Crawford (1772), Big Pun (1971), Moira Kelly (1968), John Antoine Nau (1860), Thomas Ewing (1789), and Arthur Freed (1894). After him are John Varley (1947), Michael Mullen (1946), Everett Sloane (1909), Thelma Houston (1946), Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929), and Peter Mark Richman (1927).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Carleton S. Coon ranks 22. Before him are George Murdock (1897), Gayle Rubin (1949), Madison Grant (1865), Michael Harner (1929), James C. Scott (1936), and Julian Steward (1902). After him are Napoleon Chagnon (1938), Eugenie Scott (1945), Edwin H. Colbert (1905), and John Tooby (1952).

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