根据人类学家卡尔顿·库恩(英语:Carleton S. Coon)的说法,地中海人种的“家园和摇篮”在北非和西南亚,从摩洛哥到阿富汗。他进一步指出,地中海人种是巴基斯坦和北印度的主要人口组成部分。库恩说,体型较小的地中海人种在中石器时代从地中海盆地向北陆路进入欧洲。高个子地中海人种(大西洋-地中海人种)是新石器时代的海上入侵者,他们乘坐芦苇船航行,从近东起源地开始在地中海盆地定居。他们还在不列颠和爱尔兰像殖民者一样定居,今天可以看到他们的后代,其特征是深棕色头发、黑眼睛和强壮的特征。库恩在自己的著作中强调了地中海人种的核心作用,声称“地中海人种占据了舞台的中心;他们最集中的地区恰恰是文明最古老的地区。这是可以预料的,因为是他们创造了它从某种意义上说,它产生了它们”。[11]自18世纪后半期开始,伴随着工业革命的兴起,英国的地中海人种人口增长迅速。[12][13][14]
The Races of Europe (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) by Carleton Stevens Coon (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆). Chapter X: The British Isles – Great Britian, General Survey: "The industrial revolution, which has fostered dense under-privileged populations in the Midlands and on the Clyde, has enormously increased, by some selective process, the darker-haired and darker-eyed elements in Britain."
The Races of Europe (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) by Carleton Stevens Coon (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆). From Chapter XI: The Mediterranean World – Introduction: "The next strip to follow, in a geographical sense, would be the whole highland belt of central Europe stretching over to the Balkans, to Asia Minor, and across to the Caucasus and Turkestan. This second zone, however, is one of immense racial complexity. In it various branches of the greater Mediterranean family, of Neolithic date and later, have been modified by combining in various proportions with each other and with the autochthonous Alpine race. The key to the complexity of this zone lies in the genetic action of this last entity, which is apparently a reduced, somewhat foetalized, or more highly evolved branch of the old Paleolithic stock than those which we have been studying in the north. Since, however, it is the action of this element upon the Mediterranean family which is important here, it will be easier to study this zone after having surveyed the population of a third belt, that occupied by the purest living representatives of the Mediterranean race. This third racial zone stretches from Spain across the Straits of Gibraltar to Morocco, and thence along the southern Mediterranean shores into Arabia, East Africa, Mesopotamia, and the Persian highlands; and across Afghanistan into India. This zone is one of comparative racial simplicity. In it the brunet Mediterranean race lives today in its various regional forms without, in most cases, the complication of the Paleolithic survivals and reemergences which have so confused the racial picture on the ground of Europe itself. Only in the mountains of Morocco and Algeria, and in the Canary Islands, is such a survival of any importance. The Careful study of living populations of the Mediterranean race in its early homelands will do much to simplify the task which lies ahead."
The Races of Europe (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) by Carleton Stevens Coon (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆). From Chapter X: The British Isles: "The Neolithic economy was probably first brought to Britain by the bearers of the Windmill Hill culture from the Continent, and they in turn were members of the group which had invaded western Europe from North Africa by way of Gibraltar. The racial type to which these Windmill Hill people presumably belonged was a small Mediterranean, but there is little or no direct skeletal evidence from England to confirm this. By far the most important Neolithic movement into Great Britain, and into Ireland as well, came by sea from the eastern Mediterranean lands, using Spain as a halting point on the way. It was this invasion which passed up the Irish Channel to western and northern Scotland, and around to Denmark and Sweden. The settlers who came by sea were the Megalithic people, and belonged to a clearly differentiated variety of tall, extremely long-headed Mediterranean, which was presumably for the most part brunet. This racial group furnished both Great Britain and Ireland, which consisted, before their arrival, of nearly empty land, with a numerous and civilized population which has left many descendants today."
Patrizia Palumbo. A Place in the Sun: Africa in Italian Colonial Culture from Post-Unification to the Present. University of California Press, 2003. P. 66.
"Our area, from Morocco to Afghanistan, is the homeland and cradle of the Mediterranean race. Mediterraneans are found also in Spain, Portugal, most of Italy, Greece and the Mediterranean islands, and in all these places, as in Southwest Asia, they form the major genetic element in the local populations. In a dark-skinned and finer-boned form they are also found as the major population element in Pakistan and northern India ... The Mediterranean race, then, is indigenous to, and the principal element in, the Southwest Asia, and the greatest concentration of a highly evolved Mediterranean type falls among two of the most ancient Semitic-speaking peoples, notably the Arabs and the Jews (Although it may please neither party, this is the truth.). The Mediterraneans occupy the center of the stage; their areas of greatest concentration are precisely those where civilization is the oldest. This is to be expected, since it was they who produced it and it, in a sense, that produced them.", Carleton Stevens Coon (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), the Story of the Middle East, 1958, pp. 154–157
"Our area, from Morocco to Afghanistan, is the homeland and cradle of the Mediterranean race. Mediterraneans are found also in Spain, Portugal, most of Italy, Greece and the Mediterranean islands, and in all these places, as in Southwest Asia, they form the major genetic element in the local populations. In a dark-skinned and finer-boned form they are also found as the major population element in Pakistan and northern India ... The Mediterranean race, then, is indigenous to, and the principal element in, the Southwest Asia, and the greatest concentration of a highly evolved Mediterranean type falls among two of the most ancient Semitic-speaking peoples, notably the Arabs and the Jews (Although it may please neither party, this is the truth.). The Mediterraneans occupy the center of the stage; their areas of greatest concentration are precisely those where civilization is the oldest. This is to be expected, since it was they who produced it and it, in a sense, that produced them.", Carleton Stevens Coon (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), the Story of the Middle East, 1958, pp. 154–157
Eugenical News, Volumes 12-14 (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) by American Eugenics Society (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆). VOL. XIII: Further Notes on "The Racial Elements of European History": "In England, since the industrial revolution, the Mediterranean substratum has increased until it constitutes nearly one half of the population."
Racial Realities in Europe (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) by Lothrop Stoddard. Chapter I: Racial Realities in Europe: "A century ago Europe began to bo transformed from an agricultural to an urbanized, industrial area. Countless cities and manufacturing centres grew up, where men were close packed and were subjected to all the evils of congested living. Of course, such conditions are not ideal for any stock. Nevertheless, the Nordic suffered more than any one else. The Nordic is essentially a high standard man. He requires healthful living conditions, and pines when deprived of good food, fresh air, and exercise. Too long as Europe was mainly agricultural the Nordic usually got these things. In fact, in cool Northern and Central Europe an agricultural environment actually favored the big blond Nordic as against the slighter, less muscular Mediterranean, while in the hotter south the Nordic upper class, being the rulers, were protected from field labor and thus survived as an aristocracy. Under modern conditions, however, the crowded city and the cramped factory weed out the Nordic much faster than they do the Alpine or the Mediterranean, both of which stocks seem to be able to stand such an environment with less damage to themselves. It is needless to add that the late war and its aftermath have been terrible blows to the Nordic race."
Racial Realities in Europe (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) by Lothrop Stoddard. Chapter I: Racial Realities in Europe: "In England the Mediterranean element seems to be increasing. A century or two ago it was probably insignificant. Since then the growth of city and factory life, emigration of Nordics, and immigration of Welsh and Irish laborers have combined to make the Mediterranean element a growing factor. Wales seems to be about three-fifths Mediterranean, while Ireland is over two-thirds Mediterranean in blood."
The Races of Europe (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆) by Carleton Stevens Coon. Glossary: Appendix II: Reëmergence: "The reappearance of an older racial entity through the vehicle of a mixed population by the mechanism of differential selection."