Sonia Mary Cole
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Sonia Mary Cole was a British geologist
, anthropologist and author for the British Museum
. Cole was a close friend of Mary Leakey
who wrote her obituary. She is most remembered for her work Races of Man, which drew heavily from Carleton Coon
.
Geologist
A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that has shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using...
, anthropologist and author for the British Museum
British Museum
The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...
. Cole was a close friend of Mary Leakey
Mary Leakey
Mary Leakey was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first skull of a fossil ape on Rusinga Island and also a noted robust Australopithecine called Zinjanthropus at Olduvai. For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in Olduvai Gorge,...
who wrote her obituary. She is most remembered for her work Races of Man, which drew heavily from Carleton Coon
Carleton S. Coon
Carleton Stevens Coon, was an American physical anthropologist, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, lecturer and professor at Harvard, and president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.-Biography:Carleton Coon was born in Wakefield, Massachusetts to a...
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Works
- An Outline of the Geology of Kenya (1950)
- The Prehistory of East Africa (1954, 2nd Ed. 1958, Rev Ed. 1964)
- Races of Man (1963, 2nd Ed. 1965)
- The Neolithic Age (1970)