candelabra hypothesis sorry i was away for a while just saw your comment the term 'candelabra' was coined by william white howells mankind in the making to describe coon's view of the origin of the races its completely incorrect but nonetheless the only term which has ever been used to describe coon's evolutionary model its incorrect because howell's misinterpretated weidenreich's polycentric multiregional origin of the races which actually includes large amounts of gene flow regional interbreeding when he wrongly believed it was a parallel polygenic model of the races however coon stressed far less on this gene flow but still allowed for it so basically neither weidenreich nor coon's multiregionalism is true parallel or polygenic evolution however coon's model comes far closer to it as his model doesn't take much interbreeding into account his geneflow is very minimal wiley blackwell encyclopedia of human evolution pp see on google books has a full discussion pointing all this out coon also believed the racial developments and splits were long before sapienization and that they were present in archaic homo and even earlier if you read his racial adaptations he briefly discusses his idea that the australopithecine's were already split into the races for example he sees mongoloid dental traits in one regional variation however true polyphyletic or polygenism models on the origins of the races died out in the late th century karl vogt for example argued the different races were never at any one point related and that they evolved from different primates