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CURRICULUM VITAE: Milford H. Wolpoff

 

 

                                                    

Department of Anthropology

University of Michigan

 

231 West Hall

Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1092                                   

e-mail: wolpoff @umich.edu

         

Born 1942 in Chicago, Illinois

                

EDUCATION

 

     A.B.  Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1964         

              Major: Anthropology              Minor: Mathematics

       

     Ph.D.  Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1969       

              Major: Physical Anthropology    Minor: Zoology, Archaeology          

              Dissertation: Metric Trends in Hominid Dental Evolution

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

 

1977 � present   Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan

1976 - present   Adjunct Associate Research Scientist, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan                                  

2002 to present  Founding Editorial Board for PaleoAnthropology

1999                 Scientific Committee for International Conference �The Neandertals and Human Evolution in Central Europe�

1996                 Historic Consultant, Film Roos

1994 - 1995       Honorary Research Associate, Biological Anthropology Research Programme, University of the Witwatersrand.

1992 - 1995      Panel of Referees for Human Evolution

1991 (summer)  Visiting Fellow, Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, Canberra 

1989 (summer)  Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Capetown

1986 - 1992       Reading Committee for Collegium Anthropologicum

1983 - 1987       Executive Committee, Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association (Founding Executive Committee)

1982 - 1984       Reading Committee for L'Anthropologie

1973 - 1982       Editorial Board for Journal of Human Evolution

1973 - 1977      Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan

1972 - 1980       Physical Anthropology Editor for Warner Module Publications, Inc. (changed to MSS Information Corporation Module Series)

1971 - 1973       Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan

1968 - 1971       Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University

1968 - 1971       Associate Curator of the Hamann-Todd Collection, Cleveland Museum of Natural History

1965 - 1968       Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois, Department of Anthropology, Urbana, Illinois

1965                  Research assistant for Dr. Eugene Giles in Ticul, Yucat�n, for a genetic analysis project

 

  

 

 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND ORGANIZATIONS

 

 

Sigma Xi

Paleoanthropology Society

Current Anthropology Associate

American Association of Physical Anthropologists

Fellow of the American Anthropological Association

Honorary Life Member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

 

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RECENT AWARDS, HONORS AND PRIZES

 

1998         LS&A Excellence in Education Award  

1999         W.W. Howells Book Prize in Biological Anthropology, presented by the Biological Anthropology  Section of the American Anthropological Association 

1999         Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger Award at the Krapina 1899-1999 Conference, presented by the Croatian    Natural History Museum. 

2001-2004 Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer 

2002          AAAS Fellow

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

           

1965-68    National Institutes of Health Predoctoral Fellowship 1-F1-GM-30,854-01.

1972   National Science Foundation Grant: A Survey of Lower Pleistocene Hominid Morphology  GS-33035.  $11,500

1973   American Philosophical Society Grant: Research Cast Purchase funds $1,200

1973   National Science Foundation Grant: Doctoral Dissertation Grant in Physical Anthropology, GS-38607 $1,950

1973   Rackham Research Grant (with W. Farrand): A Preliminary Investigation of the Middle Pleistocene Communities in the Lake Baringo Area, Kenya  $8,81  

1974   Wenner Gren Foundation Grant: Travel and subsistence to attend conference on "African Hominidae of the Plio-Pleistocene" (New York) and present an invited paper

1976   National Academy of Sciences, Eastern European Program Grant (Krapina and Vindija Skeletal Material in Zagreb, Yugoslavia)

1976   National Science Foundation Grant: Functional Morphology of Early European Hominids, BNS 75-21756 $2,050

1976   National Science Foundation Grant: Doctoral Dissertation Grant in Physical Anthropology, BNS 76-04894  $950

1976   La Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris) Grant: Travel and subsistence to attend IX^th Congress of the Union Internationale des Sciences Pr�historiques et Protohistoriques (Nice), and present an invited paper

1977   Rackham Research Grant: Functional Anatomy and Ecology of New East African Homo erectus  $4,306

1977   National Science Foundation Grant: Evolution of Tooth Function and Craniofacial Form, BNS 76-82729  $249,500

1978   National Academy of Sciences, Eastern European Program Grant (Krapina and Vindija Skeletal Material in Zagreb, Czechoslovakian fossil hominids in Prague, Brno)

1982   La Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris): Travel and subsistence to attend First Congr�s International de Pal�ontologie Humaine (Nice) and present an invited paper

1982   National Science Foundation Scholarly Exchange Program with the People's Republic of China Grant: Regional Continuity in Chinese Pleistocene Hominid Evolution, INT 81-17276  $34,567

1982   National Science Foundation Grant: Doctoral Dissertation Grant in Physical Anthropology, BNS 81-20078 $8,587

1982   Australian National University Research School of Pacific Studies (Canberra) Grant: Travel and subsistence to attend conference on "Bones, Molecules, and Man" in Canberra, presenting an invited paper and a public lecture

1983   National Science Foundation Grant: Doctoral Dissertation Grant in Physical Anthropology, BNS 82-15019  $7,373

1984   American Museum of Natural History: Travel and subsistence grant to attend the "Ancestors: Four Million Years of Humanity" study sessions and symposium, chairing a session on Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus.

1984   University of New England (Armidale) Visiting Research Scientist Fellowship.  $4,000.

1984   Rackham Research Grant: Evolutionary Origins of the Australian Aborigines.  $10,000.

1985  Taung Diamond Jubilee International Symposium (Johannesburg) and Office of the Vice President of the University of Michigan Grants: Travel and subsistence to attend Taung Diamond Jubilee International Symposium (Johannesburg) and present an invited paper.  $2,200.

1986   National Science Foundation Grant: An analysis of Stone Age European Skeletal Remains, BNS 85-09147  $26,050.

1986   School of American Research Grant: Travel and subsistence to attend advanced seminar on "The Origins of Modern Human Adaptations" in Santa Fe, organized by E. Trinkaus, and present an invited paper.

1987   University of Michigan Faculty Assistance Grant for travel to the University of Cambridge conference on "The Origins and Dispersal of Modern Humans: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives", organized by C.B. Stringer and P. Mellars, and present an invited paper.  $400. Subsistence grant provided by the Cambridge University Department of Archaeology and the Anthropology Department of the British Museum (Natural History).

1987   Subsistence grant to attend the "Evolutionary History of the Robust Australopithecines" workshop (Port Jefferson), organized by F. Grine, and present an invited paper.

1988   National Academy of Sciences, Eastern European Program Extended Visit Grant (Krapina and Vindija Skeletal Material in Zagreb).

1989   University of Michigan Office of the Vice President for Research Grant: Evolutionary Changes in Cranial Stress Distributions, $16,551.

1989   Washington Centennial Commission grant to attend the Circum-Pacific Prehistory Conference, presenting a paper and taking part in round table discussions on modern human origins in the circum-Pacific region, $750.

1989   University of Michigan Faculty Assistance Fund and Department of Anthropology grant to facilitate travel in South Africa and the purchase of equipment, supplies, and casts, $1178.

1991   Field Museum of Natural History: Travel and subsistence grant to attend the Field Museum's 14th Annual Spring Symposium on "Origin of Anatomically Modern Humans" organized by M.H. Nitecki, and present an invited paper

1991   University of Michigan Faculty Assistance Fund ($2000), Committee on International Studies ($2000), and Office of the Vice President for Research ($4000), University of Michigan, to examine Yunxian remains and comparative specimens in the People's Republic of China.

1991   Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University: 1500 AD for travel to Canberra in order to take up Visiting Lecturer position.

1991   Grants from the Senckenberg Museum and the University of Michigan Faculty Assistance Fund for travel and subsistence to attend the Fourth International Senckenberg Conference "One Hundred Years of Pithecanthropus: the Homo erectus Problem", attend a workshop on the Senckenberg Homo erectus fossils, and present an invited paper. $1040.

1992   Funding to attend 3rd International Congress on Human Paleontology (Jerusalem) and present an invited papers.

1992  Funding to attend Workshop on Evoluci�n Humana en Europa y los Yacimientos de la Sierra de Atapuerca (Medina del Campo) for a site visit and to and present an invited paper.

1992  Grant to attend Seminar on "Eve--Paradise Lost" at Cortona, Italy, and present an invited paper.

1992  Funding from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture to attend 1st International Conference on Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals in Tokyo, Japan, and present an invited Keynote address.

1993  Grant from the University of Michigan Faculty Assistance Fund for travel to attend the Paleoanthropology Society and American Association of Physical Anthropologists meetings in Toronto.

1993  Grant and honorarium from University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, to attend the symposium on The Dawn of Humanity and present an invited paper.

1994  Funding from the International Institute for Anthropological Studies, Science City, Kyoto to attend International Conference on Modern Human Origins and present an invited paper.

1995  Funding from the Congreso Internacional de Paleontolog�a Humana to attend the Congress and excursions in Orce, Spain, and present an invited paper.

1995  Funding from The Clarke Center, Dickinson College, to attend the Symposium on Race and present an invited paper, and serve on a discussion panel.

1996   Funding from the International Institute for Anthropological Studies, Science City, Kyoto to attend International Conference on �The Origins and Past of Modern Humans - Toward a Reconciliation� and present an invited paper.

1996  Funding from the Council for General Anthropology to attend the annual AAA meetings as their Distinguished Lecturer.

1997   Funding from CNRS and the LS&A Faculty Assistance Fund to attend �Colloque Internationale en l�honneur de Jan Jel�nek: Changements Biologiques et Culturels en Europe de la fin du Pal�olithique Moyen au N�olithique� held in Bordeaux, and present an invited paper.

1997   Funding from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to attend Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Human Evolution and present a paper.

1997   Funding from Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (Italy) to attend the International Symposium on �Humans from the Past: Advancement in Research and Technology� in Rome, present an invited paper, and chair a session.

1999   Funding from the University of Rome to support joint research and analysis of nonmetic dental traits, with Dr. Alfredo Coppa (L5,000,000).

1999   Funding from the Faculty Assistance Fund (LS&A, University of Michigan) and the Croatian Natural History Museum (Zagreb) to defray costs incurred attending Krapina 1899-1999: International Conference �The Neandertals and Human Evolution in Central Europe� and present an invited paper and give the closing address.

1999   Funding from the Office of the President, Kent State University, to attend the Mini-Conference on Human Origins and present a Presidential Address (�Hominid Origins�) and an invited paper at the conference.

1999  Funding from Fundacio Caixa D�estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona and the Barcelona Museo de la Ciencia to attend the 5^th International IASHP Congress on Human Paleontology pre-meeting Barcelona Conference �The Dawn of Humanity: Human Walking, Ecology, Behaviour,� and present an invited paper.

2000  Funding from the University of the Balearic Islands to attend the 5^th International IASHP Congress on Human Paleontology pre-meeting Palma de Mallorca Conference on �Taxonomy and Systematics of the Human Clade� and present an invited paper.

2000  Grant from American Geophysical Union to attend the XV^th Congress of the 1999 International Union for Quaternary Research (Durban, South Africa), ($2,000).

2000  Travel and subsistence funding from the Foundation for the Future to attend the Humanity Three Thousand Symposium and Kistler Prize Award Ceremony.

2001  Travel and subsistence funding from the Faculty Assistance Fund, LS&A, to visit Tbilisi (Georgia) and study the Dmanisi fossil remains ($1210).

2004  Travel and subsistence funding from The Gibraltar Museum to attend �Calpe 2004 - Perspectives on Human Origins,� visit fossil sites, and present an invited paper

2004  Travel and subsistence funding from the Gallo-Roman Museum (Tongeren) to attend �Neandertals in Europe� conference and present an invited paper.

 

 

RECORD OF RESEARCH

 

1965     Primate morphology study at Field Museum (Chicago); collected genetic information and conducted tests and blood sampling with E. Giles for 1,500 residents of Ticul, Yucat�n

1966     Primate morphology study at American Museum of Natural History

1967     Archaeological test excavations in Piatt County, Illinois (with A. Rohn)

1968     Dental study at Dickson Mounds (Lewiston, Illinois); dental study at Field Museum of Natural History

1969     Examination of fossil hominid casts available through the Philadelphia Museum, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and at the Smithsonian Institute, the University of Chicago and the Harvard Peabody Museum

1970     Study of Tabun and Skhul material at Harvard Peabody Museum, examination of Omo australopithecines in the laboratory of F.C. Howell at the University of Chicago

1969-71 Studies of primate variation in Hamann-Todd collection

1972     Four month study of Lower Pleistocene hominids at the Transvaal Museum (Pretoria), University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), National Museums of Kenya, Olduvai Gorge, Lake Turkana, Makapansgat, Sterkfontein, and Swartkrans

1973     Continued study of East Turkana fossil hominids at the National Museums of Kenya; member of the University of Michigan expedition to Loboi, Baringo District, Kenya, which conducted a preliminary excavation of Middle and Late Pleistocene sites

1974     Study of Libben Native American dental variation at Kent, Ohio

1975     Examination of the Afar (Ethiopia) australopithecine remains at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History

1976     Study of fossil hominoid primate and hominid specimens at the British Museum of Natural History (London), Goethe Universit�t  (Frankfurt), Magyar Nemzeti Museum (Budapest), the collection of M. Kretzoi (Budapest), T�rm�sz�ttudom�nyi Muzeum (Budapest), Geolo�ko-Paleontolo�ki zbirka i laboratorij za kr�, JAZU (Zagreb),  Geolo�ko-Paleontolo�ki muzej (Zagreb), and the Geological and  Paleontological Institute of the University of Thessaloniki  (Thessaloniki)

1977     Study of fossil and recent hominoid primate and hominid remains at The International Louis Leakey Memorial Institute for African Prehistory (Nairobi)

1978     Study of Omo fossil hominid remains (Berkeley); study of fossil hominid and hominoid primate remains at the British Museum of Natural History (London), Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (Brussels), Reinisches Landesmuseum (Bonn), St�dtischen Museum (Wiesbaden), Goethe Universit�t (Frankfurt), Natur-Museum and Forschungs-Institut Senckenberg (Frankfurt), Geologisch- Paleontologisches Institut, Universit�t Heidelberg (Heidelberg), Geologisch-Pal�ontologische Abteilung, Staatlisches Museum f�r Naturkunde (Stuttgart), Museum f�r Ur-und F�rhgeschichte T�rringens (Weimar, Landesmuseum f�r Vorgeschichte (Halle/Saale), Geolo�ko- Paleontolo�ki zbirka i laboratorij za kr�, JAZU (Zagreb), Geolo�ko- Paleontolo�ki Muzej (Zagreb), T�rm�sz�ttudom�nyi Muzeum (Budapest), the collection of M. Kretzoi (Budapest), Anthropos Institute of the Moravian Museum (Brno), Naturhistorisches Museum (Vienna), Museum of Anthropology of Moscow State University (Moscow), Laboratoire de G�ologie historique, Facult� des Sciences (Marseille), Mus�e de l'Homme (Paris), Institut de Pal�ontologie humaine (Paris), Mus�e des Antiquit�s Nationales de Saint Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines), Mus�um d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), Laboratoire de Pal�ontologie des Vert�bres et de Pal�ontologie Humaine, University of Paris (Paris)

1979     Study of fossil hominid and hominoid primate remains at the British Museum of Natural History (London), Laboratoire de Pal�ontologie des Vert�bres et de Pal�ontologie humaine, University of Paris (Paris), Mus�e de l'homme (Paris), Collection Cotte (Lyon), Natur-Museum und Forschungs-Institut Senckenberg (Frankfurt), Geolo�ko-Paleontolo�ki zbirka i laboratorij za kr�, JAZU (Zagreb), Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Academia Sinica (Peking), Projek Penelitian Paleoanthropologi Nasional, Falcultas Kedkteran, Universitas Gadjah Mada (Jogjarkarta), Museum Geologi (Bandung), Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University (Canberra), Department of Anatomy, University of Sydney (Sydney), Cleveland Museum of Natural History.  Site visit to Zhoukoudian.

1980     Study of fossil hominid and hominoid primate material at Laboratoire d�Anthropologie, Facult� de Medicine, Universit� d�Zix-Marseille (Marseille), Laboratoire de Pal�ontologie des Vert�bres et de Pal�ontologie Humaine, University of Paris (Paris), British Museum of Natural History (London), Slovensk� Narodn� M�zeum (Bratislava), Geolo�ko-Paleontolo�ki muzej (Zagreb), Geological and Paleontological Institute, University of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki), Hadassah Medical School (Jerusalem), Rockefeller Museum (Jerusalem), Institute of Prehistory, Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Department of Antiquities (Jerusalem), Transvaal Museum (Pretoria), Department of Anatomy, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg), South African Museum (Capetown), National Museum of Bloemfontein, and TILLMIAP (Nairobi)

1981     Study of fossil hominid and hominoid primate material at University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), American Museum of Natural History (New York), Harvard Peabody Museum (Boston), Kent State University, and Yale Peabody Museum (New Haven).

1982     Study of fossil hominid and hominoid primate material at the Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (Beijing) and field visits in China to Xujiayao, Dingcun (Tingtsun), Yuanmou, Lufeng, Dali, Liujiang, Lotus Cave, Gigantopithecus Cave; examination of fossil Australian material in the Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University (Canberra).

1984     Study of fossil hominid and non-human hominoid material in the American Museum of Natural History "Ancestors: Four Million Years of Humanity" exhibit study sessions (New York); Study of fossil and recent Australian Aboriginal specimens at University of New England Department of Prehistory (Armidale, University of Melbourne Medical School Department of Anatomy, National Museum of Victoria (Melbourne), Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University (Canberra).

1985     Site visits to Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Bushman Rock Shelter (Republic of South Africa) during Taung Diamond Jubilee International Symposium.

1986     Study of fossil hominid and non-human hominoid material at the National Museum of Wales (Cardiff), British Museum of Natural History (London), Anthropologische Abteilung of the Natur Historisches Museum Wein, Instit�t f�r Anthropologie und Humangenetic Universit�t Tubingen, Anthropologische Staatsamlungen M�nchen, Anthropos Institute Morvask� Muzeum (Brno), Hrvatski prirodoslovini muzej (Zagreb), and site visits to Předmost�, Mladeč, and Vindija.

1988     Sudy of East African Plio-Pleistocene fossil hominid casts at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, John Hopkins University (Baltimore); study of fossil hominid skeletal material at the Hrvatski prirodoslovini muzej (Zagreb) and Anthropos Institute Morvask� Muzeum (Brno); site visits to Vindija (Croatia), Crvena Stijena [Red Cave] (Monte Negro), and in Moravia Mladeč, Doln� Věstonice, and Milovice.

1989     Study of Klasies River Mouth Main Cave specimens in the South African Museum (Capetown), study of archaeologically provenienced and dated Holocene specimens from the southern Cape coastal regions in the South African Museum and the Anatomy Department of the University of Capetown, examination of the Kaloma remains at the McGregor Museum (Kimberly), study of Swartkrans members 1-3 hominids at the Transvaal Museum (Pretoria), and of the Sterkfontein members 4 and 5 hominids at the Department of Anatomy, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg).

1991     Study of Gongwangling and Chouhu at the Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (Beijing), and Jinniushan and Laishu at the Department of Archaeology, Beijing University; study of Senckenberg Museum Homo erectus specimens, Dmanisi and Urhana mandibles, and Sangiran 31 cast, at the Senckenberg Museum (Frankfurt)

1992     Examination of Atapuerca specimens and site visit to the Atapuerca caves (near Burgos); study of Doln� Věstonice specimens at Doln� Věstonice and Anthropos Institute, Brno; study of Pavlov and Zlat� Kůn at the Antropologick� Oddělen�, N�rodn� Museum, Prague; site visit to the Mladeč cave; examination of Trinil 1 and 2 and Kedung Brubus at Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden; study of Kebara 2, Amud VII, and Ohalo 2 at the Department of Anatomy, University of Tel Aviv; site visit to Hayonim Cave, study of St. C�saire, Marillac specimens, Combe Grenal specimens, Biache, and a cast of Saltzgitter-Lebenstedt at the Paleoanthropology Laboratory, Universit� de Bordeaux.

1995     Study of Krapina and Vindija hominids at Hrvatski prirodoslovini muzej (Zagreb) and site visits to both caves; examination of bones from Orce, and human remains from Cabezo Gordo and Zafarraya; site visits to Zafarraya Cave and Cave of the Angels.

1996     Examination of Jinniushan pelvis cast at University of Delaware, comparative analysis of the pelvis at the University of Pennsylvania.

1997     Examination of Neandertal remains at the University of Bordeaux, Department of Anthropology.

1999     (with Alfredo Coppa) Analysis of non-metric traits of the dentition for Holocene and Late Pleistocene human remains; examination of Can Llobbateres Dryopithecus laietanus skeleton and various Oreopithecus remains at the Institut de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (Sabadell); study of Krapina and Vindija hominids at Hrvatski prirodoslovini muzej (Zagreb)

2002     Examination of Dmanisi and Sakajia remains at the Georgian Natural History Museum, and visit to the Dmanisi site.Examination of Dmanisi and Sakajia remains at the Georgian Natural History Museum, and visit to the Dmanisi site.

2004     Examination of Ceprano cranium at the Department of Anthropology, University of Rome, and Dmanisi remains at the Georgian Natural History Museum.

 

PAPERS READ AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

  

1965   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: A Functional Explanation of Nose Form Variation.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 23:330.

1965   Society for American Archaeology Meetings: A Methodology for a Culture- Based Classificatory Procedure.

1966   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: The Taxonomic Status of "Telanthropus" as an Example of Sympatric Hominid Speciation.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 25:204-205.

1966   (with F.K. Lehman) Wenner-Gren Conference on Anthropology and Systems Theory (Austria): Language Structure and Systems Theory.  Invited paper.

1967   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: A Critique of the Applicability of Huxley's "Relative Growth" Curve to Primate Population Data.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 27:242.

1968   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: The Question of Lower Pleistocene Multiple Hominid Taxa.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 31:256.

1969   American Anthropological Association Meetings: The Australopithecine Stage of Human Evolution.

1970   (with D. Brose)  Society for American Archaeology Meetings: Early Upper Paleolithic Man and Late Middle Paleolithic Tools.

1970   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Interstitial Wear, Tooth Dimension Comparisons and Early Hominid Diet.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 33:146.

1971   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Tooth Size, Body Size, and Diet in the Gracile Australopithecines.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 35:299.

1972   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Form and Function in Hominid Interpretations.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 37:457.

1972   American Anthropological Association Meetings: Sexual Dimorphism in the Australopithecines.

1973   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: The Swartkrans Composite Cranium.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 40:156-157.

1973   International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (Chicago): Canine Dimorphism in the Australopithecines.  Invited paper.

1974   Wenner-Gren Conference on African Hominidae of the Plio-Pleistocene: Evidence, Problems, and Strategies.  Analogies and Interpretation in Paleoanthropology.  Invited Paper.

1975   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Some Problems in the Interpretation of Homo in the Lower Pleistocene of East Africa.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 42:341.

1975   Symposium on Determinants of Mandibular Growth and Form (Ann Arbor). Some Aspects of Human Mandibular Evolution. (Invited paper).

1976   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Australopithecine Tooth Size Selection.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 44:216.

1976   Union Internationale des Sciences Pr�historiques et Protohistoriques (Nice): Selection and Early Hominid Tooth Size Evolution. (Invited paper).

1976   Symposium on Homo erectus in Honor of Davidson Black (Toronto). Evolutionary Trends in Homo erectus: Some Biomechanical Aspects. (Invited paper).

1976   (with M. Malez) American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Vindija Cave: New Evidence on the European Neandertal Problem.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 47:168.

1977   8th Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies (Nairobi). Morphological Dating of the Swartkrans Australopithecines.

1979   American Anthropological Association Meetings: What Ever Happened to the Single Species Hypothesis?, and Some Problems Concerning a Ramapithecine Ancestry for Hominids (invited paper for symposium on "Origin of Man: Facts and Ideas").

1981   (with A.G. Thorne) American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Regional Continuity in Australian Pleistocene Hominid Evolution.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 54:284.

1981   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Evolutionary Changes in European Neandertals.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 54:290.

1982   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Transition and Continuity in Pleistocene Hominid Evolution.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 57:241-242.

1982   1st Congr�s International de Pal�ontologie Humaine (Nice): The Arago Dental Sample in the Context of Hominid Dental Evolution.  (Invited paper).

1982   Symposium on "Bones, Molecules, and Man" (Canberra): African and European Evidence for Regional Continuity in Pleistocene Hominid Evolution (invited paper).  Europe and Australia: The Ends of the Earth.  Public lecture for symposium on "Recent Advances in Paleoanthropology."

1983   American Anthropological Association Meetings: Speciation in Human Evolution (invited paper in symposium on "Speciation in Physical Anthropology").

1983   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Phenomenal New Discovery Overturns All Previously Held Theories of Human Evolution.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 60:272.

1983   (with Wu Xinzhi) American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Hominid Sites and Research Prospects in the People's Republic of China (invited paper).  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 60:273.

1984   Conference on Molecular Analysis and Phylogenetic Inference (Ann Arbor): The Hominoid Fossil Record:  Paleontological Resolution of the Hominoid Divergence Sequence (invited paper).

1984   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Region and Grade in Hominid Evolution.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 63:236.

1984   (with D.W. Frayer) European Anthropological Association Meetings (Florence): The Neandertal Transition: A Case for Sex Differences in Evolutionary Rates.  Abstract published in Anthropologia Contemporanea 7:100.

1985   Taung Diamond Jubilee International Symposium: Human Evolution at the Peripheries: the Pattern at the Eastern Edge (invited paper). Abstract published in Abstracts volume for the Symposium, edited by N. Cameron.

1985   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Variability: The Paradox of Paleoanthropology.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 66(2):243-244.

1985   American Society of Biomechanics Meetings: Biomechanics and the Interpretation of Human Evolution.  (Invited keynote paper).

1985   Association of Southern Anatomists Meetings: Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution (invited paper in symposium on "The Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution").

1985   American Anthropological Association Meetings: The Origins of Homo erectus.

1986   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: The Origin(s) of Homo sapiens.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 69(2):281-282.

1986   The Longest Record: The Human Career in Africa.  Conference in Honor of J. Desmond Clark: Origins and Adaptations of Homo erectus (invited paper).

1986   School of American Research Advanced Seminar on "The Origins of Modern Human Adaptations": The Place of the Neandertals in Human Evolution (invited paper).

1987   Conference on "The Origins and Dispersal of Modern Humans": Multiregional Evolution - The Fossil Alternative to Eden (invited paper).

1987   Workshop on "The Evolutionary History of the Robust Australopithecines": Divergence between Australopithecine Lineages: The Roles of Culture and Competition (invited Paper).

1987   (with J. Jel�nek) American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: New Discoveries and Reconstructions of Upper Pleistocene Hominids from the Mladeč Cave, Moravia.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 72(2):270-271.

1987   American Anthropological Association Meetings: What is Modern Homo sapiens?  (Invited paper for symposium on "Out of Africa in the Later Pleistocene: Molecular and Paleoanthropological Evidence").

1988   University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania conference on "The Question of Human Origins: Evidence in Conflict": Neandertals in the Garden of Eden? (invited Paper).

1988   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Second Cousins: the Eurasian Perspective (invited paper for Plenary Symposium Session on "The Fate of the Neandertals").

1988   12th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (Zagreb): Fossils and Racial Origins {invited paper for symposium on "Homo sapiens Evolution", abstract published in Collegium Anthropologicum 12(Supplement):337};  The Dental Remains from Krapina (invited paper for symposium on "Something Old, Something New: Perspectives on the Krapina Neandertals", abstract published in Collegium Anthropologicum 12(Supplement):349;  Introductory Remarks to organized and chaired symposium on "Homo erectus and the Origin of Homo sapiens".

1989   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Early "Modern" Humans from the Levant?  The Problem of Adaptation.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 78(2):326.

1989   Circum-Pacific Prehistory Conference (Seattle): East Asian Fossils and the Origin of the Races, and participation in a panel discussion: MtDNA and Physical Anthropology.

1989   Royal Society of South Africa: The Evolution of Anatomically Modern People (invited paper).

1989   (with S. Sohn) International Symposium on Palaeoanthropology in Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the Discovery of the First Skull of Peking Man (Beijing): The Zuttiyeh Face: A View from the East.  Abstract published in Abstracts and Field Guide for the Symposium, pp. 121-122.  Institute for Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing.

1989   South African Archaeological Society: Fossils and the Origins of the Races (invited paper).

1989   American Anthropological Association Meetings: The Australian Fringe: the Case for Continuity and Migration.  (in symposium on "The Ends of the Earth: 40,000 to 10,000 BP Physical and Cultural Evolution at the Fringes", organized by M.H. Wolpoff and O. Soffer).

1990   American Association for the Advancement of Science 156th National Meeting: Mitochondria and the Origin of the Races (invited paper for symposium on "The Fossil Evidence for Modern Human Origins", organized by Milford H. Wolpoff).  Abstract published in 1990 Annual Meeting Abstracts of Papers, M.D. Games (editor), p. 21, Symposium synopsis published in Abstracts of Symposia, A. Herschman and S.M. O�Connell (editors), p. 25, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington.

1990   (with R. Caspari) American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: The Morphological Affinities of the Klasies River Mouth Skeletal Remains. Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81(2):203. Metric Analysis of the Skeletal Material from Klasies River Mouth, Republic of South Africa. Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81(2):319.  Papers reported in Science News 137(15):228 ("Modern Humans May Need Redefining" by B. Bower).

1990   (with S. Sohn) American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: The Zuttiyeh Face, A View from the East.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81(2):297-298.

1990   (with J.A. Miller) American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Relative Arm Length in the South African Australopithecines. Abstract published in  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81(2):269.

1991   (with D.W. Frayer and R. Caspari) American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Form and Function: Fact or Fiction?. Invited paper for symposium on "A New Definition of Neandertal", organized by A.E. Mann and M.H. Wolpoff. Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology supplement 12:186.  Symposium reported in Science News 139:360-363 ("Neandertals' disappearing act" by B. Bower), Science 252:376 ("Pulling Neandertals Back Into Our Family Tree" by E. Culotta), and New Scientist 20 April:27 ("Neanderthals puzzle the anthropologists" by R. Lewin).

1991   (with A.G Thorne) Multiregional Evolution: a World-Wide Source for Modern Homo sapiens.  Invited paper for symposium on "Origin of Anatomically Modern Humans", the 14th Annual Spring Systematics Symposium held at the Field Museum, organized by M.H. Nitecki, Paper reported in the Chicago Tribune) May 23, section 5:1-2 ("Evolution Revolution", by R. Groomsman).

1991   (with A.G Thorne, J. Jel�nek, and Zhang Yinyun) The Case for Sinking Homo erectus: 100 Years of Pithecanthropus is Enough!.  Invited paper for the 4th International Senckenberg Conference: One Hundred Years of Pithecanthropus: the Homo erectus problem.

1992   (with J. Radovčić) American Association for the Advancement of Science 158th National Meeting: The Place of the Neandertal in Human Evolution (invited paper for symposium on "The Fate of the European Cave Men", organized by Alan E. Mann and Milford H. Wolpoff).  Paper abstract published in 1992 Annual Meeting Abstracts of Papers, S.M. O'Connell (editor), p. 61, Symposium synopsis published in Abstracts of Papers, pp. 60-61, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington.  Symposium reported in New Scientist 15 February:19 ("Skull Reconstructions Speak for Neanderthals"), The New York Times February 4:B5,B9 ("Neanderthals: Dead End or Ancestor?", by W.K. Stevens), The Los Angeles Times February 9:A1,A12 ("Study Boosts Neanderthals into Human Family Tree", by T.H. Maugh II), The Economist February 15:100- 101 ("Bone People"), The Washington Post February 24:A1, A3 ("Time tames the beast" by B. Rensberger, and The Washington Post National Weekly Edition March 2-8:38 ("Not such a bad guy after all: the Neanderthal image is evolving again") by B. Rensberger).

1992   (with A.G. Thorne) American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: 100 Years of Pithecanthropus is Enough!  Invited paper for symposium on "Does Homo erectus still Exist? Organized by A.G. Thorne and M.H. Wolpoff. Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 14:175-176.

1992   (with T.L. Crummett and A. Kramer) American Association of Physical Anthropology Meetings: Two human species in the Late Pleistocene Levant?  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 14:65-66.

1992   (with D.W. Frayer) Paleoanthropology Society, 1st Annual meeting: Out of Africa - and into Europe?  Implications of the "Eve" Theory for Modern European Origins.

1992   Workshop on Human Evolution in Europe and the Atapuerca Evidence: "Middle Pleistocene Europeans and the Origin of modern Humans", invited paper.

1992   Cortona Seminar on "Eve--Paradise Lost", organized by B. Chiarelli: "Modern Human Origins - Some Theories and the Factual Evidence", invited paper.

1992   1st International Conference on Prehistoric Mongoloid Dispersals: "Multiregional Evolution: the Case for Ancient Mongoloid Origins", invited Keynote address.

1992   3rd International Congress on Human Paleontology: "Homo erectus in Europe: An Issue of Grade, of Clade, or Perhaps No Issue at All!" (abstract published in Journal of the Israeli Prehistoric Society Supplement 1:137), invited paper for Round Table Session "Homo erectus and the Ante-Neandertals"; "Weidenreich, Polycentric Evolution, and the Multiregional Evolution Model", invited paper in Symposium in "Franz Weidenreich: His Contribution to Paleoanthropology" organized by L. Schepartz.  These papers, and conference discussion, were reported in The Chronicle of Higher Education (September 16): ("The Question of Human Origins Debated Anew as Scientists Put to Rest the Idea of a Common African Ancestor"), A7-A9.

1993   (with R. Caspari) American Association for the Advancement of Science 159th National Meeting: Klasies River Mouth Cave: Modern Human or Not!? (invited paper for symposium on "The End of Eve!? Fossil Evidence from Africa" organized by Milford H. Wolpoff and Alan G. Thorne).  Paper abstract published in 1993 Annual Meeting Abstracts of Papers, S.M. O'Connell (editor), p. 173, Symposium synopsis published in Annual Meetings Abstracts of Papers, p. 173, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington D.C.  Symposium reported in Science 259:1249-1250 ("Mitochondrial Eve Refuses to Die" by A. Gibbons).

1993   American Association of Physical Anthropology Meetings: Implications of Homo heidelbergensis: A New Record Set for Homoplasies in Mammalian Evolution?  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 16:210.

1993   (with A.G. Thorne) Paleoanthropology Society, 2nd Annual meeting: WLH 50: A Morphological Link with Indonesia.

1993   (with R. Caspari) 1st International Symposium on Man and the Environment in the Paleolithic: The Pattern of Human Evolution, an invited paper.

1993   University Museum, University of Pennsylvania symposium on "The Dawn of Humanity", organized by A. Mann: "Endlessly Rocking - The Cradle of Modern Human Origins", invited paper.

1994   International Institute for Anthropological Studies symposium on Modern Human Origins, organized by S. Omoto: Many Sources, Not One, an invited paper.

1995   (with T.L. Crummett) American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meeting: Regional Characters in the Javan Homo Sample: Early Establishment or Slow Accumulation?  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 20:80-81.

1995   (with R. Caspari) American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meeting: Weidenreich and Coon: Intellectual Continuity or Independent Origins?  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 20:73.

1995   Tarrant County Junior College Symposium "Human Origins, A Symposium Concerning the Origin of Homo sapiens": Multiregional Evolution - A Theory that Works!

1995   Congreso Internacional de Paleontolog�a Humana: �Multiregional Evolution�, invited paper

1995   Clarke Center Symposium on White Identity, Thinking about Race: Past Races and Present Variation, an invited paper

1996   International Institute for Anthropological Studies symposium �The Origins and Past of Modern Humans - Toward a Reconciliation�, organized by S. Omoto: What are Modern Humans?, an invited paper

1996  Gordon Research Conference on Bioengineering and Orthopaedic Science: Biophysical Influences on Musculoskeletal Structures.  Featured guest lecture: �Bones, Brawn, and Behavior - the Neandertal in Us All.�

1996   American Anthropological Association Meeting: Many Ways to be Hominid, One Way to be Human.  Council for General Anthropology Distinguished Lecture.

1997 (with F.H. Smith and D.W. Frayer) Paleoanthropology Society Meeting: Neandertals are a Race of Homo sapiens.  Abstract published in Journal of Human Evolution 32(4):A25.

1997  Colloque Internationale en l�honneur de Jan Jel�nek: Changements Biologiques et Culturels en Europe de la fin du Pal�olithique Moyen au N�olithique: The Last Neandertals, an invited paper.

1997  (with J.H. Relethford) Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Human Evolution: Population Size and Structure, and Models of Human Evolution.  Abstract published in meetings volume: L.L. Cavalli-Sforza and J.D. Watson (editors) Human Evolution, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor. p. 89.

1997 International Symposium on Humans from the Past: Advancement in Research and Technology: Multiregional Evolution and the Neandertal Question, an invited paper.

1998   American Association for the Advancement of Science 164th National Meeting: Race in Prehistory � the issue of Different Species.  (Invited paper for symposium on "Race and Human Evolution" organized by Milford H. Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari).  Paper abstract published in 1998 Annual Meeting Abstracts of Papers, C.J. Boyd and M.S. Strauss (editors), Exploring Frontiers-Expanding Opportunities. American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington D.C.  p. A-46. Symposium synopsis published in Boyd and Strauss (1998, p. S-39).

1999   (with J. Hawks, S. Oh, K. Hunley, S. Dobson, G. Cabana, and P. Dayalu) American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meeting: An Australasian Test of the Recent African Origin Theory using the WLH-50 Calvarium.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 28:280.

1999  (with K. Hunley and J. Hawks, reader) International Workshop in the Neanderthal Museum: Central and Eastern Europe from 50,000 � 30,000 B.P. �A Population Genetic Model for Neandertal DNA.�  Abstract published in abstracts volume The Story of Human Evolution, pp. 69-70.

1999  (with J. Hawks) Society of American Archaeologists, invited paper in the Fryxell Symposium: Papers in Honor of Henry P. Schwarcz. Innocent Victims: Henry�s Dates are often Problematic and even Unbelievable, but he is the Only Game in Town.

1999   (with J. Hawks, reader) International Union for Quaternary Research, XV^th (Durban) International Congress �The Environmental Background to Hominid Evolution in Africa.� Invited paper in the symposium �Out of Africa: Once, Twice, or Continuously in the Pleistocene?�: Why is Out of Africa Out of Luck?

1999   Krapina 1899-1999: International Conference �The Neandertals and Human Evolution in Central Europe�: Dental Remains from Krapina (invited paper). Paper abstract published in the Program and Book of Abstracts (pp. 51-53)

1999   Closing remarks for the International Conference �The Krapina Neandertals and Human Evolution in Central Europe.� Paper abstract published in the Program and Book of Abstracts (pp. 53-55)

1999  Mini-Conference on Human Origins, organized by Per Enflo of the Mathematics Department, Kent State University: �Human Origins.�

1999  5^th International IASHP Congress on Human Paleontology, Pre-meeting Barcelona Conference �The Dawn of Humanity: Human Walking, Ecology, Behaviour,� session on �The Origin of Humans�: The Origin of Hominids - The Origin of Humanity.

1999  (with R. Caspari, reader) American Anthropological Association Presidential Symposium: A Time for Every Purpose in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology �The Time Trap.�

1999  American Anthropological Association Invited Session: Current Issues in Anthropology, a Five-Fields Update �Biological Anthropology � Is No News Good news?�

2000  5^th International IASHP Congress on Human Paleontology pre-meeting Conference on �Taxonomy and Systematics of the Human Clade� held at Palma de Mallorca: �Is there a Phylogeny of Homo?�

2000  (with D.W. Frayer, J. Jel�nek, and M. Oliva) Paleoanthropology Society Meeting: The Mladeč Males: Aurignacian Crania from Moravia.  Abstract published in Journal of Human Evolution 38(3):A35.

2000   (with D.W. Frayer, M. Oliva, and J. Jel�nek) American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meeting: The Male Aurignacian Crania from the Mladeč Caves. Moravia. Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 29:325-326.

2001   American Association of Physical Anthropologists Symposium �Read our Lips, No New Taxa,� organized by M.H. Wolpoff: Introduction - How did we get here?  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 32:166-167.

2001  (with P. Enflo and J. Hawks)  American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: A Simple Reason why Neanderthal Ancestry can be Consistent with Current DNA information.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 32:62.

2003   (with J. Hawks)  Paleoanthropology Society Meeting: The Accretion Model of Neandertal Evolution.  Abstract published in Journal of Human Evolution 40(3):A10.

2002  (with S-H. Lee)  Paleoanthropology Society Meetings: Pattern of brain size increase in Pleistocene Homo.  Abstract published in Journal of Human Evolution

2002  American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: The Species of Humans at Dmanisi.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 117(S34):167.

2002  (with S-H. Lee)  American Association of Physical Anthropologists Meetings: Evolutionary Patterns in Pleistocene Human Brain Size.  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology 117(S34):100.

2003  American Anthropological Association (Plenary Talk for BAS): Roots

2004  American Association of Physical Anthropologists: Plenary Talk: A Funny Thing Happened to me on the Way to the Podium

2004  American Association of Physical Anthropologists (with J Wilson): Are all Neandertal Males Really Male?  Abstract published in American Journal of Physical Anthropology Supplement 38:210.

2004  Powell Lecture, presented at the Southwestern and Rocky Mountain Division of AAAS (SWARM): Modern Human Origins

2004  Calpe 2004 - Perspectives on Human Origins (Gibraltar): Why not Neandertals? (invited paper).

 

 

BOOK AND FILM REVIEWS

   

1966  Giles, E., and M.H. Wolpoff: "Multivariate Statistical Analysis for Biologists," by H.L. Seal.  Human Biology 8:444-445.

 

1970  "Man: His First Two Million Years," by M.F. Ashley Montagu. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 33:273-274.

 

1971  "Food in Antiquity," by D. and P. Brothwell. Human Biology 43:467.

 

1971  "Physical Anthropology: An Introduction," by A.J. Kelso. American Anthropologist 73:1432-1433. [PDF]

 

1972 "Man's Ancestors," by I. Tattersall.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 37:420-421.

 

1973  "Hominid Fossils: An Illustrated Key," by T.W. Phenice. American Anthropologist 75:1149-1150. [PDF]

 

1974  "Climbing Man's Family Tree: A Collection of Major Writings on Human Phylogeny," edited by T.D. McCown and K.A.R. Kennedy. American Anthropologist 76:681. [PDF]

 

1974  "Early Hominid Posture and Locomotion," by J.T. Robinson. Human Biology 46:719-724.

 

1977   "Earliest Man and Environments in the Lake Rudolf Basin: Stratigraphy, Paleoecology, and Evolution," edited by Y. Coppens, F.C. Howell, G.L. Isaac and R.E.F. Leakey.  American Anthropologist 79:709-711. [PDF]

 

1977  "Paleodemographic Aspects of the South African Australopithecines," by A. E. Mann. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 47:497-499.

 

1980  "Neanderthal Man," by Myra Shackley.  American Anthropologist 83:199-200. [PDF]

 

1981   An Egg's Way. Review of "Evolutionary Biology and Human Social Behavior: An Anthropological Perspective," edited by N. A. Chagon and W. Irons.  Reviews in Anthropology 8:1-8.

 

1983   �Atlas of Radiographs of Early Man," by M.F. Skinner and G.H. Sperber.  American Anthropologist 85:964-965. [PDF]

 

1985   "Racial Adaptations: A Study of the Origins, Nature, and Significance of Racial Variation in Humans," by C.S. Coon. Anthropology 1(2):73-76.

 

1986   "Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China", edited by Wu Rukang and J.W. Olsen. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 71:122-123.

 

1992   "Olduvai Gorge, Volume 4: The Skulls, Endocasts, and teeth of Homo habilis", by P.V. Tobias. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 89(3):401-402.

 

1993   "The Origin of Modern Humans and the Impact of Chronometric Dating", edited by M.J. Aitken, C.B. Stringer, and P.A. Mellars. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 93(1):131-137.

 

1994   Visualizing the sweep of human evolution.  Review of "In Search of the Neanderthals: Solving the Puzzle of Human Origins," by C. Stringer and C. Gamble, and "The Human Odyssey: Four Million Years of Human Evolution," by I. Tattersall.  American Scientist 82(2):178-179.

 

1994   "The Evolution and Dispersal of Modern Humans in Asia," edited by T. Akazawa, K. Aoki, and T. Kimura. American Anthropologist 96(1):184-187. [PDF]

 

1998   Wolpoff, M.H., and R. Caspari: �History of Physical Anthropology: An Encyclopedia (two volumes),� edited by F. Spencer. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 106(3):405-406. [PDF]

 

1999   �Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia,� edited by T. Akazawa, K. Aoki, and O. Bar-Yosef. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 109(3):416-423. [PDF]

 

1999  Paleoanthropology: controversy without end or an end without controversy?  Reviews in Anthropology 28:267-288. Review of W. Eric Meikle, F. Clark Howell and Nina G. Jablonski eds. (1996) Contemporary Issues in Human Evolution. Wattis Symposium Series in Anthropology Memoir 21. San Francisco: California Academy of Sciences.

 

2001  �The Inevitable Domination of Man: An Evolutionary Detective Story,� by Semour W. Itzkoff.  Journal of Anthropological Research 57:367-368.

 

2000   �The Last Neanderthal: The Rise, Success, and Mysterious Extinction of Our Closest Human Relatives,� by Ian Tattersall, and �Extinct Humans,� by Ian Tattersall and Jeffrey Schwartz.  American Journal of Archaeology 105:715-716. [PDF]

 

2001   �The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins,� 2^nd Edition, by Richard Klein.  American Anthropologist 103(3):850-851. [PDF]

 

2002   �Adventures in the Bone Trade: The Race to Discover Human Ancestors in Ethiopia's Afar Depression� by Jon Kalb," Journal of Field Archaeology 28(1/2): 234--236.

 

2002  The Tail That Wags the Dog.  Review of �Monkey in the Mirror: Essays on the Science of What makes us Human,� by I. Tattersall.  Trends in Genetics 18(10):538-539. [PDF]

 

2003  What is Evolution?  Evolutionary Anthropology 12(1):53-55. [PDF]

 

2003  �Homo erectus from Nanjing� edited by Wu Xinzhi and Mu Xinan, Wu Rukang and Li Xingxue Editors-in-Chief.  PaleoAnthropology 2003.05.02.20. [WEB]

 

2003  �The Human Fossil Record, Volume 1: Terminology and Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Europe)�, by J.H. Schwartz and I. Tattersall.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 122:184-186.  [PDF]

 

 

PAPERS

  

1968

 

"Telanthropus" and the Single Species Hypothesis.  American Anthropologist 70:447-493.  [PDF]  Reprinted in  Man in Evolutionary Perspective, edited by C.L. Brace and J. Metress.  Wiley, New York. pp. 255-271 (1973).

 

Climatic Influence on the Skeletal Nasal Aperture.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 29:405-427.

 

Giles, E., A. Hansen, J. McCullough, D. Metzger, and M.H. Wolpoff: Hydrogen Cyanide Phenylthiocarbamide Sensitivity, Mid-phalangeal Hair, and Color Blindness in Ticul, Mexico.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 28:203-212. 

 

 

1969

 

The Effect of Mutations under Conditions of Reduced Selection.  Social Biology 16:11-23.  Reprinted in  Man in Evolutionary Perspective, edited by C.L. Brace and J. Metress.  Wiley, New York. pp. 18-29 (1973).

 

Cranial Capacity and Taxonomy of Olduvai Hominid 7.  Nature 223:182-183. 

 

 

1970

 

The Evidence for Multiple Hominid Taxa at Swartkrans.  American Anthropologist 72:756-607. [PDF]

 

Taxonomy and Cranial Capacity of Olduvai Hominid 7.  Nature 227:747.

 

 

1971

 

Interstitial Wear.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 34:205-228.

 

Is the New Composite Cranium from Swartkrans a Small Robust Australopithecine? Nature 230:398-401.

 

Is V�rtessz�ll�s II an Occipital of Homo erectus?  Nature 232:567-568.

 

V�rtessz�ll�s and the Presapiens Theory.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 35:209-216.  Reprinted in  Man in Evolutionary Perspective, edited by C.L. Brace and J. Metress. Wiley, New York.  pp. 272-279 (1973).

 

A Functional Measure of Tooth Size.  Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 27:279-286.

 

Competitive Exclusion among Lower Pleistocene Hominids: The Single Species Hypothesis.  Man 6:601-614.  [PDF]  Reprinted in Explorations in Anthropology, edited by M.H. Fried.  Crowell, New York.  pp. 57-67 (1973), and in Primate Evolution and Human Origins,  edited by R.L. Ciochon and J.G. Fleagle. Benjamin/Cummings, Menlo Park.  pp. 269-274 (1985).

 

Brose, D.S., and M.H. Wolpoff: Early Upper Paleolithic Man and Late Middle Paleolithic Tools.  American Anthropologist 73:1156-1194.  [PDF]  Reprinted in The Human Evolution Source Book, edited by R.L. Ciochon and J.G. Fleagle.  Prentice Hall Advances in Human Evolution Series, Englewood Cliffs.  pp. 523-545 (1992). 

 

 

1972

 

Comment on "Tooth Wear and Culture: A Survey of Tooth Functioning among some Prehistoric Populations," by S.M. Molnar. Current Anthropology 13:521-522. [PDF]

 

 

1973

 

The Single Species Hypothesis and Early Hominid Evolution.  In: Variation in Anthropology, edited by D. Lathrap and J. Douglas. Illinois Archaeological Survey, Springfield.  pp. 5-15.

 

Comment on "On the Group System of Man and Paedomorphosis," by D.L. Crombie. Current Anthropology 14:171. [PDF]

 

Posterior Tooth Size, Body Size, and Diet in South African Gracile Australopithecines.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 39:375-394.

 

Sexual Dimorphism in the Australopithecines.  Publication of the IXth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, pp. 1-90.

 

 

1974

 

The Evidence for Two Australopithecine Lineages in South Africa.  Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 17:113-139.

 

Analogies and Interpretation in Paleoanthropology.  Pre-Print, African Hominidae of the Plio-Pleistocene Conference.

 

Sagittal Cresting in the South African Australopithecines.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 40:397-408.

 

Comment on "Paleoecology of South African Australopithecines: Taung Revisited," by K.W. Butzer.  Current Anthropology 15:412-413.

 

 

1975

 

Sexual Dimorphism in the Australopithecines.  In: Paleoanthropology: Morphology and Paleoecology, edited by R.H. Tuttle.  Mouton, The Hague. pp. 245-284.

 

Dental Reduction and the Probable Mutation Effect.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 43:307-308.

 

Some Aspects of Human Mandibular Evolution.  In: Determinants of Mandibular Form and Growth, edited by J.A. McNamara. University of Michigan Press.  pp. 1-64.

 

Comment on "Did La Ferrassie I Use His Teeth as a Tool?" by J. Wallace. Current Anthropology 16:399. [PDF]

 

Comment on "Hypothesis Testing in Paleoanthropology," by D. Pilbeam and J.R. Vaisnys.  In: Paleoanthropology: Morphology and Paleoecology, edited by R.H. Tuttle. Mouton, the Hague, pp. 15-18.

 

Comment on "Ramapithecus as a Hominid."  In: Paleoanthropology: Morphology and Paleoecology, edited by R.H. Tuttle.  Mouton, The Hague.  pp. 174-176.

 

Comment on "Australopithecine Tooth Size and Sexual Dimorphism." In: Paleoanthropology: Morphology and Paleoecology, edited by R.H. Tuttle. Mouton, The Hague.  pp. 285-287.

 

Comment on "On the Evolution of Language: A Unified View," by P. Lieberman. In: Primate Functional Morphology and Evolution, edited by R.H.  Tuttle.  Mouton, The Hague.  pp. 541-543.

 

Comment on "Early Hominid Endocasts: Volumes, Morphology, and Significance for Hominid Evolution," by R.L. Holloway.  In: Primate Functional Morphology and Evolution, edited by R.H. Tuttle. Mouton, The Hague, pp. 547-548.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and C.L. Brace: Allometry and Early Hominids.  Science 189:61-63. [PDF]

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and C.O. Lovejoy: A Rediagnosis of the Genus Australopithecus.  Journal of Human Evolution 4(3):275-276.

 

 

1976

 

Data and Theory in Paleoanthropological Controversies.  American Anthropologist 78(1):94-96. [PDF]

 

Evolutionary Aspects of Hominid Tooth Size Reduction and Early Hominid Dental Variation.  Le Plus Anciens Hominid�s, edited by P.V. Tobias and Y. Coppens. Centre National de la Recherche Scientific, Paris.  pp. 318-406.

 

Multivariate Discrimination, Tooth Measurements and Early Hominid Taxonomy. Journal of Human Evolution 5:339-344.

 

Some Aspects of the Evolution of Early Hominid Sexual Dimorphism.  Current Anthropology 17(4):579-606 (with reply to comments). [PDF]

 

Primate Models for Australopithecine Sexual Dimorphism.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 45:497-510.

 

Fossil Hominid Femora.  Nature 264:812-813.

 

 

1977

 

A Reexamination of the ER 733 Cranium. Zeitschrift f�r Morphologie und Anthropologie 68:8-13.

 

Systematic Variation in Early Hominid Corpus Dimensions.  Anthropologischer Anzeiger 36:3-6.

 

Some Notes on the V�rtessz�ll�s Occipital.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 47:357-364.

 

 

1978

 

Some Implications of Relative Biomechanical Neck Length in Hominid Femora. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 48:143-148.

 

More on Australopithecine Sexual Dimorphism.  Current Anthropology 19:221-222. [PDF]

 

Some Aspects of Canine Size in the Australopithecines.  Journal of Human Evolution 7:115-126.

 

Analogies and Interpretation in Paleoanthropology.  In: Early Hominids of Africa, edited by C. Jolly.  Duckworth, London.  pp. 461-503.

 

The Dental Remains from Krapina.  In: Krapinski Pračovjek I Evolucija Hominida, edited by M. Malez.  Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb. pp. 119-144.

 

The Australopithecines: A Stage in Human Evolution.  In: Krapinski Pračovjek I Evolucija Hominida, edited by M. Malez.  Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb.  pp. 269-291.

 

 

1979

 

The Krapina Dental Remains.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 50:67- 114.

 

On Hominid Sexual Dimorphism.  Current Anthropology 20:165. [PDF]

 

Anterior Dental Cutting in the Laetolil Hominids and the Evolution of the Bicuspid P₃.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 51:233-234.

 

 

1980

 

Cranial Remains of Pleistocene European Hominids.  Journal of Human Evolution 9:339-358.

 

Morphological Dating of the Swartkrans Australopithecines.  In: Proceedings of the 8th Panafrican Congress of Prehistory and Quaternary Studies.  Nairobi, 1977, edited by R.E.F. Leakey and B.A.  Ogot.  The Louis Memorial Institute for African Prehistory, Nairobi.  pp. 169-170.

 

Allez Neanderthal.  Nature 289:823.

 

 

1981

 

Comment on "Bonobos: Generalized Hominid Prototypes or Specialized Insular Dwarfs."  Current Anthropology 22:370-371. [PDF]

 

Publicizing Prehistory (Letter to Editor). Science 214:6.

 

Cranial Capacity Estimates for Olduvai Hominid 7.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 56:297-304.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., F.H. Smith, M. Malez, J. Radovčić and D. Rukavina: Upper Pleistocene Human Remains from Vindija Cave, Croatia, Yugoslavia.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 54:499-545.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and M.D. Russell: Anterior Dental Cutting at Laetolil.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 55:223-224.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and M.D. Russell: Errata.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 56:325.

 

Thorne, A.G., and M.H. Wolpoff:  Regional Continuity in Australasian Pleistocene Hominid Evolution.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 55:337-349.  Reprinted in: The Human Evolution Source Book, edited by R.L. Ciochon and J.G. Fleagle. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs.  pp. 436-445 (1992).

 

 

1982

 

Relative Canine Size.  Journal of Human Evolution 11:151-158.

 

The Arago Dental Sample in the Context of Hominid Dental Evolution.  In: L'Homo erectus et la Place de l'Homme de Tautavel Parmi Les Hominid�s Fossiles.  Colloque International de Centre National De La Recherche Scientific, Louis-Jean Scientific and Literary Publications, Nice.  Volume 1, pp. 389-410.

 

Ramapithecus and Hominid Origins.  Current Anthropology 23(5):501-522 (with reply to comments).  [PDF]  Reprinted in Primate Evolution and Human Origins, edited by R.L. Ciochon and J.G. Fleagle.  Benjamin/Cummings, Menlo Park.  pp. 244-253 (1985).

 

Comment on "Upper Pleistocene Hominid Evolution in South-Central Europe.", by F.H. Smith. Current Anthropology 23:693. [PDF]

 

Allen, L.L., P.S. Bridges, D.L. Evon, K.R. Rosenberg, M.D. Russell, L.A. Schepartz, V.J. Vitzthum, and M.H. Wolpoff: Demography and Human Origins.  American Anthropologist 84:888-896. [PDF]

 

 

1983

 

Australopithecines: The Unwanted Ancestors.  In: Hominid Origins. Inquiries Past and Present, edited by K. Reichs. University Press of America, Washington, D.C.  pp. 109-126.

 

Ramapithecus and Human Origins: An Anthropologist's Perspective of Changing Interpretations.  In: New Interpretations of Ape and Human Ancestry,  edited by R. Ciochon and R. Corruccini.  Plenum, New York.  pp. 651-676.

 

Lucy's Lower Limbs: Long Enough for Lucy to be Fully Bipedal?  Nature 304: 59-61.

 

Lucy's Little Legs.  Journal of Human Evolution 12:443-453.

 

 

1984

 

Evolution in Homo erectus: The Question of Stasis.  Paleobiology 10(4):389- 406.  [PDF]  Reprinted in The Human Evolution Source Book, edited by R.L. Ciochon and J.G. Fleagle.  Prentice Hall Advances in Human Evolution Series, Englewood Cliffs.  pp. 386-399 (1992).

 

Wolpoff, M.H., Wu Xinzhi and A.G. Thorne: Modern Homo sapiens Origins: A General Theory of Hominid Evolution Involving the Fossil Evidence from East Asia. In: The Origins of Modern Humans: A World Survey of the Fossil Evidence, eds. F.H. Smith and F. Spencer. Liss, New York.  pp. 411-483.

 

 

1985

 

Tooth Size - Body Size Scaling in a Human Population: Theory and Practice of an Allometric Analysis.  In: Size and Scaling in Primate Biology, edited by W.L. Jungers.  Plenum, New York.  pp. 273-318.

 

Prehistory and the Human Image.  Michigan Quarterly Review 24(2):159-168. [PDF]

 

On Explaining the Supraorbital Torus.  Current Anthropology 26(4):522. [PDF]

 

Human Evolution at the Peripheries: The Pattern at the Eastern Edge. In: Hominid Evolution: Past, Present, and Future.  Proceedings of the Taung Diamond Jubilee International Symposium, Johannesburg and Mmabatho, Southern Africa, 27th January - 4th February 1985.  Edited by P.V. Tobias. Alan R. Liss, New York.  pp. 355-365.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and A. Nkini: Early and Early Middle Pleistocene Hominids from Asia and Africa.  In: Ancestors: The Hard Evidence, edited by E. Delson.  Alan R. Liss, New York.  pp. 202-205.

 

Frayer, D.W., and M.H. Wolpoff: Sexual Dimorphism.  Annual Review of Anthropology for 1985 14:429-73. [PDF]

 

 

1986

 

More on Zhoukoudian.  Current Anthropology 27(1):45-46. [PDF]

 

Describing Anatomically Modern Homo sapiens.  A Distinction without a Definable Difference.  In: Fossil Man - New Facts, New Ideas.  Papers in Honor of Jan Jel�nek's Life Anniversary, edited by V.V. Novotn� and A. Mizerov�.  Anthropos (Brno) 23:41-53.

 

Prehistory and the Human Image.  LSA Magazine (The University of Michigan) 9(3):17-21.

 

Stasis in the Interpretation of Evolution in Homo erectus: A Reply to Rightmire. Paleobiology 12(3):325-328.[PDF]

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and R. Caspari: Article on the Leakey Family.  Encyclopedia Americana, 1986 Edition 17:114-115.  Carried forward in future editions.

 

 

1988

 

The Origins of Humanity.  In: Tracks Through Time, edited by F. Doig. Australian Natural History Supplement 2:16-25.

 

Foreword (Predgovor) to Dragutin Gorjanovieq \o(c,�)-Kramberger and Krapina Early Man: The Foundation of Modern Paleoanthropology by J. Radovčić.  �kolska knjiga and Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej, Zagreb.  pp. 6-7.

 

Divergence between Early Hominid Lineages: The Roles of Competition and Culture.  In: The Evolutionary History of "Robust" Australopithecines, edited by F.  Grine.  Aldine de Gruyter, New York.  pp. 485-497.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., J.M. Monge, and M. Lampl: Was Taung a Human or an Ape?  Nature 335:501

 

Wolpoff, M.H., J.N. Spuhler, F.H. Smith, J. Radovčić, G. Pope, D.W. Frayer, R. Eckhardt, and G. Clark: Modern Human Origins.  Science 241:772-773. [PDF]

 

 

1989

 

Multiregional Evolution: the Fossil Alternative to Eden.  In: The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans, edited by P. Mellars and C.B. Stringer.  Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.  pp. 62-108.  Reprinted in The Human Evolution Source Book, edited by R.L. Ciochon and J.G. Fleagle.  Prentice Hall Advances in Human Evolution Series, Englewood Cliffs.  pp. 476-497 (1992).

 

The Place of the Neandertals in Human Evolution.  In: The Emergence of Modern Humans, edited by E. Trinkaus.  Cambridge University Press, London.  pp. 97- 141 (with references at the back of the volume).

 

Evolutionary Trends in the European Neandertals.  In: L'Homme de N�andertal. Volume 7, L'Extinction.  Etudes et Recherches Archa�ologiques de l'Universit� Li�ge 34:129.

 

 

1990

 

Encyclopedia Britannica 1990 edition entry on Extinct Humans of East Asia and Australasia.  Carried forward in future editions.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and R. Caspari: On Middle Paleolithic/Middle Stone Age Hominid Taxonomy. Current Anthropology 31(4):394-395. [PDF]

 

Sohn, Songy, and M.H. Wolpoff: Zuttiyeh: A New Look at an Old Face.  Acta Anthropologica Sinica 9(4):358-370.

 

 

1991

 

Comment on "Isolation and Evolution in Tasmania", by C. Pardoe.  Current Anthropology 32(1):17-18. [PDF]

 

Homo erectus et les Origines de la Diversit� Humaine.  In: Aux Origines d' Homo sapiens.  Nouvelle Encyclop�die Diderot, edited by. J-J. Hublin and A- M. Tillier. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris.  pp. 97-155.

 

Comment on "The Human Community as a Primate Society", by L. Rodseth, R.W. Wrangham, A.M. Harrigan, and B.B. Smuts.  Current Anthropology 32(3):249. [PDF]

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and A.G. Thorne: The Case Against Eve.  New Scientist 22(1774):33-37. [PDF]

 

Thorne, A.G., and M.H. Wolpoff: Conflict over Modern Human Origins.  Search 22(5):175-177.

 

 

1992

 

Levantines and Londoners.  Science 255:142.

 

Theories of Modern Human Origins.  In: Continuity or Replacement. Controversies in Homo sapiens Evolution, edited by G. Br�uer and F.H. Smith. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.  pp. 25-63.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and D.W. Frayer: Neanderthal Dates Debated.  Nature 356:200-201.

 

Thorne, A.G., and M.H. Wolpoff: The Multiregional Evolution of Humans.  Scientific American 266(4):76-83   Reprinted in K.M. Endicott and R. Welsch (eds) Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Anthropology.  McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, Guilford, Connecticut (2001), pp. 12-21.

 

Thorne, A.G., and M.H. Wolpoff: All about Eve.  Scientific American 267(3):12.

 

 

1993

 

Reply to Dr. Foote (Human Cranial Variability: a Methodological Comment). American Journal of Physical Anthropology 90(3):381-384.

 

Eckhardt, R.B., A.G. Thorne, and M.W. Wolpoff: Multiregional Evolution. Science 262:973-974. [PDF]

 

Frayer, D.W., and M.H. Wolpoff: "Comment on "Glottogenesis and Anatomically Modern Homo sapiens: Evidence for and Implications of a late Origin of Vocal Language," by R.G. Milo and D. Quiatt.  Current Anthropology 34(5):14-16. [PDF]

 

Frayer, D.W., M.H. Wolpoff, A.G. Thorne, F.H. Smith, and G.G. Pope: Theories of Modern Human Origins: the Paleontological Test.  American Anthropologist 95(1):14-50. [PDF]

 

Sohn, Songy, and M.H. Wolpoff: The Zuttiyeh face: a View from the East.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 91(3):325-348.

 

Thorne, A.G., M.H. Wolpoff, and R.B. Eckhardt: Genetic Variation in Africa.  Science 261:1507-1508.

 

 

1994

 

Yes It Is, ... No It Isn't: A Reply to Van Vark and Bilsborough.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 95(1):92-93.

 

How does Evolution Work?  Evolutionary Anthropology 3(1):4-5.

 

Time and Phylogeny.  Evolutionary Anthropology 3(2):38-39.

 

What Do We Mean by Human - and Why Does it Matter?  Evolutionary Anthropology 3(4):116-117.

 

The Calm Before the Storm.  Cambridge Archaeological Journal 4(1):97-103.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., A.G. Thorne, F.H. Smith, D.W. Frayer, and G.G. Pope: Multiregional Evolution: A World-Wide Source for Modern Human Populations.  In: Origins of Anatomically Modern Humans, edited by M.H. Nitecki and D.V. Nitecki.  Plenum Press, New York.  pp. 175-199.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., A.G. Thorne, J. Jel�nek, and Zhang Yinyun: The Case for Sinking Homo erectus. 100 Years of Pithecanthropus is Enough!  Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 171:341-361. [PDF]

 

Frayer, D.W., M.H. Wolpoff, A.G. Thorne, F.H. Smith and G.G. Pope: Reply to "Resolving the Archaic-to-Modern Transition" by G.S. Krantz.  American Anthropologist 96(1):152-155. [PDF]

 

Frayer, D.W., M.H. Wolpoff, A.G. Thorne, F.H. Smith and G.G. Pope: Getting it Straight. American Anthropologist 96(2):424-438. [PDF]

 

 

1995

 

Untangling the Issues: A Reply to Dr. Stringer.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 96(2):185-188.

 

In Focus: An Interview.  Anthropology Newsletter 36(2):17.

 

Our Gang.  In: How Things Are: A Science Tool-Kit for the Mind, edited by J. Brockman and K. Matson.  William Morrow and Company, New York. pp. 87-99.

 

Wright for the Wrong Reasons.  Journal of Human Evolution 29(2):185-188. [PDF] 

 

Letter about �Biological Anthropology and its Representation in the Press�.  Anthropology Newsletter 36(7):11.

 

Further comment on �Biological Anthropology and its Representation in the Press�.  Anthropology Newsletter 36(8):16.

 

Middle Pleistocene Europeans and the Origins of Modern Humans. In: Human Evolution in Europe and the Atapuerca Evidence, edited by J-M. Berm�dez de Castro, J.L. Arsuaga, and E. Carbonell. Volume 1.  Sever-Cuesta, Valladolid.  pp. 229-241.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and T.L. Crummett: Comment on "Testing Hypotheses about Recent Human Evolution from Skulls", by D.E. Lieberman. Current Anthropology 36(2):186-188. [PDF]

 

Caspari, R., and M.H. Wolpoff: The Pattern of Human Evolution. In: Man and the Environment in the Paleolithic, edited by H. Ullrich. �tudes et Recherches Arch�ologiques de l'Universit� Li�ge 62:19-27.

 

 

1996

 

Comment on Recent AA Article.  Anthropology Newsletter 37(2):27

 

Interpretations of Multiregional Evolution.  Science 274(5288):704-705.[PDF]

 

Neandertals of the Upper Paleolithic.  In E. Carbonell and M. Vaquero (eds.): The Last Neandertals, The First Anatomically Modern Humans: A Tale about Human Diversity.  Gr�fiques Lluc, Tarragona.  pp. 51-76.

 

Australopithecus: a New Look at an Old Ancestor (part 1).  General Anthropology 3(1):1-7.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and R. Caspari: The Modernity Mess.  Journal of Human Evolution 30(2):167-172.[PDF] 

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and R. Caspari: Why Aren�t Neandertals Modern Humans?  In O. Bar-Yosef, L.L. Cavalli-Sforza, R.J. March, and M. Piperno (eds.): The Lower and Middle Paleolithic.  Colloquium X: The Origin of Modern Man.  Colloquia of the XIII International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences.  A.B.A.C.O, Forl�.  pp. 133-156.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and R. Caspari: An Unparalleled Parallelism.  Anthropologie (Brno) 34(3):215-223.

 

Caspari, R., and M.H. Wolpoff: Coon and Weidenreich.  Human Evolution 11(3-4):261-268.

 

 

1997

 

Multiregional Evolution in the Genus Homo.  �Frontiers� section in: Biological Anthropology: A Synthetic Approach to Human Evolution, by N.T. Boaz and A.J. Almquist.  Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.  pp. 378-379.

 

Australopithecus: a New Look at an Old Ancestor (part 2).  General Anthropology 3(2):1-5.

 

�Mrs Ples� now and then. In J.F. Thackeray (ed.): �Mrs Ples� and Palaeontological Heritage.  South African Journal of Science 93(4):166-167.

 

What are the Odds?  Evolutionary Anthropology 6(1):7-8.[PDF] 

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and R. Caspari: What Does it Mean to be Modern?  In G.A. Clark and C.M. Willermet (eds.): Conceptual Issues in Modern Human Origins Research.  Aldine de Gruyter, New York.  pp.  28-44, and combined bibliography on pp. 437-492.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., A. Mann and R. Caspari: Don't Bring Politics Into Neanderthal Debate.  The New York Times Letters (8/2/97). Reprinted in A.J. Almquist (ed) Contemporary Readings in Physical Anthropology.  Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle, New Jersey (2000), pp. 148-149.

 

 

1998

 

Iz Afriki. In A. Velichko and O. Soffer (eds.): Chelovek zaselyaet planetu Zemlya.  Global'noe rasselenie gominid.  Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.  pp. 29-40 (in Russian).

 

Multiregional Evolution and Modern Human Origins.  In K. Omoto and P. V. Tobias (eds.): Origins and Past of Modern Humans: Towards Reconciliation.  World Scientific, Singapore. pp. 91-105.

 

Concocting a Divisive Theory.  Evolutionary Anthropology 7(1):1-3. [PDF]

 

Neandertals: Not so Fast.  Science 282:1991. [PDF]

 

Caspari, R., and M.H. Wolpoff: Race and Human Evolution. LSA Magazine (The University of Michigan) 22(1):12-18.

 

 

1999

 

Reply to �Neanderthal DNA Analysis� by R. Eckert. LSA Magazine (The University of Michigan) 22(2):39.

 

Multiregional Evolution.  In J. Gibert, F. S�nchez, L. Gibert, and F. Ribot (eds.): The Hominids and their Environment During the Lower and Middle Pleistocene of Eurasia.  Proceedings of the International Conference of Human Paleontology.  Imprenta Cervantes, Baza (Granada, Spain).  pp. 337-344.

 

The Systematics of Homo (letter).  Science 284:1773. [PDF] 

 

Out of Africa.  Anthropologie 37(1):33-44

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and R. Caspari: Letter to the Editor. Evolutionary Anthropology 8(1):10. [PDF] 

 

Hawks, J.D., and M.H. Wolpoff: Endocranial Capacity of Early Hominids (technical comment).  Science 283:9 [PDF]

 

 

2000

 

Science.  In J. Brockman (ed.): The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2000 Years.  Simon and Schuster, New York. pp. 137-138.

 

Current Issues in Biological Anthropology: An Update for 1999.  Teaching Anthropology SACC Notes 7(1):9-13.

 

A Comment on: The Recognition and Evaluation of Homoplasy in Primate and Human Evolution. (Lockwood, C.A., and J.G. Fleagle, 1999, Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 42:189-232.).  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 113(2):275-276. [PDF]

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and R. Caspari: The Many Species of Humanity.   Przegląd Antropologiczny (Anthropological Review) 63(1):3-17 [PDF]

 

Wolpoff, M.H., J.D. Hawks, and R. Caspari: Multiregional, Not Multiple Origins. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 112(1):129-136.[PDF]

 

Cela-Conde, C.J., E. Aguirre, F.J. Ayala, P.V. Tobias, D. Turb�n, L.C. Aiello, M. Collard, M. Goodman, C.P. Groves, F. Clark Howell, J.H. Schwartz, D.S. Straight, F. Szalay, I. Tattersall, M.H. Wolpoff, and B.A. Wood)  Systematics of Humankind.  Palma 2000: An International  Working Group on Systematics in Human Paleontology. Ludus Vitalis (Revista de Filosof�a de las Ciencias de la Vida) 7(13):127-130.  Reprinted in Volume 9(15):179-182 (2001).

 

Etler, D.A., T.L. Crummett, and M.H. Wolpoff: Longgupo: Early Homo Colonizer or Late Pliocene Lufengpithecus Survivor in South China?  Human Evolution 15(1-2):151-162.

 

Hawks, J.D., S. Dobson, and M.H. Wolpoff: Variation in Nasal Breadth as a Test of Genetic Drift in European Neandertals.  Bulletins et M�moires de la Soci�t� d'Anthropologie de Paris, n.s.12(3-4):431-436. [PDF]

 

Hawks, J.D., S. Oh, K. Hunley, S. Dobson, G. Cabana, P. Dayalu, and M.W. Wolpoff: An Australasian Test of the Recent African Origin Theory using the WLH-50 Calvarium.  Journal of Human Evolution 39(1):1-22. [PDF] 

 

Hawks, J.D., K. Hunley, S-H. Lee, and M.H. Wolpoff: Bottlenecks and Pleistocene Human Evolution.  Molecular Biology and Evolution 17(1):2-22. [PDF]

 

 

2001

 

Evolution Enough for Everyone, a Discover Dialogue.  Discover 22(6):16.

 

Comments on the article by M. Otte and J.K. Kozłowski.  Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia 3(7):63-67.

 

Is there a Phylogeny of Homo? Ludus Vitalis (Revista de Filosof�a de las Ciencias de la Vida) 9(15):75-89.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., J.D. Hawks, D.W. Frayer, and K. Hunley: Modern Human Ancestry at the Peripheries: A Test of the Replacement Theory.  Science 291:293-297. [PDF] reviewed in M. Balter (2001) Anthropologists duel over modern human origins.  Science 291:1728-1729.

 

Wolpoff M.H. and S-H. Lee: The Late Pleistocene Human Species of Israel. Bulletins et M�moires de la Soci�t� d'Anthropologie de Paris 13(3-4):291-310. [PDF]

 

Caspari, R., and M.H. Wolpoff: Race, Culture, and Human Evolution.  Fathom Knowledge Network web feature. [WEB]

 

Hawks, J.D., and M.H. Wolpoff: The Four Faces of Eve: Hypothesis Compatibility and Human Origins. Quaternary International 75(1):41-50. [PDF]

 

Hawks, J.D., and M.H. Wolpoff: Paleoanthropology and the Population Genetics of Ancient Genes. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 114(3):269-272. [PDF] 

 

Hawks, J.D., and M.H. Wolpoff: The Accretion Model of Neandertal Evolution. Evolution 55(7):1474-1485. [PDF]

 

Kramer, A., T.L. Crummett, and M.H. Wolpoff: Out of Africa and into the Levant: Replacement or Admixture in Western Asia? Quaternary International 75(1):51-63. [PDF]

 

 

2002

 

Comment on "A Diffusion Wave out of Africa", by Vinayak Eswaran.  Current Anthropology 43(5):768-769.[PDF]

 

Wolpoff, M.H., and R. Caspari: Comment on �Grappling with the Ghost of Gould� by David P. Barash. Letter to the Editor, Human Nature Review 2:297. [PDF]

 

Wolpoff, M.H., B. Senut, M. Pickford, and J. Hawks: Sahelanthropus or �Sahelpithecus�?  Nature 419:581-582. [PDF]

 

 

2003

 

All in the Family?  Letter to the editor, Natural History 112(2):12.

 

What is Evolution?  Evolutionary Anthropology 12(1):53-55. [PDF]

 

Neandertal genetics.  In J. Brů�ek, B. Vandermeersch, and M. Dolores Garralda (eds): Changements Biologiques et Culturels en Europe de la Fin du Pal�olithique Moyen au N�olithique.  Hommage � Jan Jel�nek.  Repro Slu�by, Praha.  Pp. 25-38.

 

Comment on �Species Concepts, Reticulation, and Human Evolution,� by T.W. Holliday.  Current Anthropology 44(5):666-667, 670-673 (references). [PDF]

 

Hawks, J.D., and M.H. Wolpoff: Sixty Years of Modern Human Origins in the American Anthropological Association.  American Anthropologist 105(1):87-98. [PDF]

 

Lee, S-H., and M.H. Wolpoff: The Pattern of Evolution in Pleistocene Human Brain Size.  Paleobiology 29(2):186-196. [PDF]

 

Thorne, A.G., and M.H. Wolpoff : The Multiregional Evolution of Humans, revised paper.  In M. Fischetti (ed): New Look at Human Evolution.  Scientific American 13(2):46-53. [PDF]

 

 

2004

 

Opinion: Multiregional Origins of Modern Humans.  In M.A. Jobling, M.E. Hurles, and C. Tyler-Smith: Human Evolutionary Genetics: Origins, Peoples, and Disease.  Garland Science, New York.  pp. 244-245.

 

Wolpoff, M.H., B. Mannheim, A. Mann, J. Hawks, R. Caspari, K.R. Rosenberg, D.W. Frayer, G.W. Gill, and G.A. Clark: Why Not the Neandertals?  World Archaeology 36(4):527-546. [PDF]

 

 

 

 

 

 

BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS

 

1971 Metric Trends in Hominid Dental Evolution. Case Western Reserve Studies in Anthropology 2. Case Western Reserve University Press, Cleveland; 244 pp.

 

1976 William R. Farrand, Richard W. Redding, Milford H. Wolpoff, and Henry T. Wright, III) An Archaeological Investigation on the Loboi Plain, Baringo District, Kenya. Museum of Anthropology, The University of Michigan Technical Reports Number 4, Research Reports in Archaeology, Contribution 1, Ann Arbor.

 

1980 Paleoanthropology. Knopf, New York; 379 pp. ISBN 0-394-32197-9

 

1988 Jakov Radovčić, Fred H. Smith, Erik Trinkaus, and Milford H. Wolpoff The Krapina Hominids: An Illustrated Catalog of the Skeletal Collection. Mladost Press and the Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb.

 

1994 Paleoanthropology. Preliminary publication of the 2nd edition. College Custom Series, McGraw-Hill, New York. ISBN 0-07-071679-X

 

1995 Human Evolution. 1996 edition. College Custom Series, McGraw-Hill, New York. ISBN 0-07-071827-X

 

1996 Human Evolution. 1996-1997 edition. College Custom Series, McGraw-Hill, New York. ISBN 0-07-071833-4

 

1997 Milford H. Wolpoff and Rachel Caspari Race and Human Evolution. Simon and Schuster, New York. ISBN 0-684-81013-1. [purchase] Published in paperback in 1998 by Westview press ISBN 0-8133-3546-9. A Canadian National Institute for the Blind talking book RC18623 (4 cassettes, narrated by Roy Avers). Recipient of the 1999 W.W. Howells Book Prize in Biological Anthropology, presented by the Biological Anthropology Section of the American Anthropological Association

 

1999  Paleoanthropology. 2nd edition. McGraw-Hill, New York. ISBN 0-07-071676-5. Reviewed by A. Bilsborough (2001) Clash of the Titans. Journal of Human Evolution 41:701-709.

VIDEO APPEARANCES

   

1990   �Origins� (6 part series produced by SABC) 

 

1992   Beyond 2000 (produced by Video Australia)

 News 21: �The Roots of Humanity� (in Japanese, produced by NHK)

 Infinite Voyage: �The Dawn of Humankind� (produced by WQEB, on PBS) 

 

1994    �Apeman� (4 part series produced by Granada TV, on A&E)

 

 �Dead Men Talk� (produced by Equinox, on TLC)

 �Wir Neandertaler� (in German, produced by ORF)

 Paleoworld: �Missing Links� (produced by New Dominion, on TLC) 

 

1995    Paleoworld: �Trail of the Neanderthal� (on TLC) 

1997    Ancient Mysteries: �The Fate of the Neandertals� (aired on 4/27/97 on A&E)

           �The Last Neandertal� (aired on 4/28/97 on Discovery)

            Bipedalism and Human Evolution (in Japanese, TCJ) 

 

2003    �The Lapedo Child.� (produced by Anglica Television) 

2002    �Neanderthals on Trial� (Nova, produced by WGBH). 

2002    �Creationism and Evolution�, a Detroit Public TV debate moderated by Todd Mundt,

            recorded and broadcast on PBS 9/26/01.

 

Doctoral Degrees Chaired

 

David Wayne Frayer 1976  Evolutionary Dental Changes in Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic Human Populations.  University of Michigan. [WEB]

Fred Hines Smith 1976  The Neandertal Remains from Krapina: A Descriptive and Comparative Study.  University of Michigan.

Leonard Owen Greenfield 1977  Ramapithecus and Early Hominid Origins. University of Michigan.

Timothy Douglas White 1977  The Anterior Mandibular Corpus of Early African Hominidae: Functional Significance of Shape and Size.  University of Michigan. [WEB]

Clark Spencer Larsen  1980  Prehistoric Human Biological Adaptation: a Case Study from the Georgia Coast.  University of Michigan. [WEB]

Mary Doria Russell  1983  The Functional and Adaptive Significance of the Supraorbital Torus. University of Michigan. [WEB]

Marcia Lynn Robertson  1984  The Carpus of Proconsul africanus: Functional Analysis and Comparison with Selected Nonhuman Primates.  University of Michigan.

Lynne Alison Schepartz  1987  From Hunters to Herders: Subsistence Pattern and Morphological Change in Eastern Africa.  University of Michigan. [WEB]

Andrew Kramer  1989  The Evolutionary and Taxonomic Affinities of the Sangiran Mandibles of Central Java, Indonesia. University of Michigan. [WEB]

Tracey Leigh Crummett  1994  The Evolution of Shovel Shaping: Regional and Temporal Variation in Human Incisor Morphology.  University of Michigan. [WEB]

Katarzyna Anna Kaszycka 1995 Status of Kromdraai: Cranial, Mandibular, and Dental Morphology, Systematic Relations, and Significance of the Kromdraai Hominids.  Jointly chaired with Maciej Henneberg. University of the Witwatersrand.

James Chapin McLaughlin Ahern  1998 Late Pleistocene Frontals of the Hrvatsko Zagorje: An Analysis of Intrapopulational Variation among South Central European Neandertals.  University of Michigan. [WEB]

Sang-Hee Lee 1999  Evolution of Human Sexual Dimorphism: Estimating Population Properties when Individual Sex Is Unknown. University of Michigan. [WEB]

John D. Hawks  1999  The Evolution of Human Population Size: A Synthesis of Genetic and Paleoanthropological Data.  University of Michigan.