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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
Major: Anthropology Minor: Mathematics
Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1969
Major: Physical Anthropology Minor: Zoology, Archaeology
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,
Yucatán, 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 IXth Congress of the Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques 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 Congrčs International de Paléontologie 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 Evolución 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 Paleontología 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 Jelínek: Changements Biologiques et Culturels en Europe de la fin du Paléolithique Moyen au Néolithique” 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 5th 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 5th 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 XVth 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, Yucatán
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 Universität (Frankfurt), Magyar Nemzeti Museum (Budapest), the collection of M. Kretzoi (Budapest), Térmészéttudományi Muzeum (Budapest), Geološko-Paleontološki zbirka i laboratorij za krš, JAZU (Zagreb), Geološko-Paleontološki 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), Städtischen Museum (Wiesbaden), Goethe Universität (Frankfurt), Natur-Museum and Forschungs-Institut Senckenberg (Frankfurt), Geologisch- Paleontologisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg (Heidelberg), Geologisch-Paläontologische Abteilung, Staatlisches Museum für Naturkunde (Stuttgart), Museum für Ur-und Fürhgeschichte Türringens (Weimar, Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte (Halle/Saale), Geološko- Paleontološki zbirka i laboratorij za krš, JAZU (Zagreb), Geološko- Paleontološki Muzej (Zagreb), Térmészéttudományi 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 Géologie historique, Faculté des Sciences (Marseille), Musée de l'Homme (Paris), Institut de Paléontologie humaine (Paris), Musée des Antiquités Nationales de Saint Germain-en-Laye (Yvelines), Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), Laboratoire de Paléontologie des Vertébres et de Paléontologie Humaine, University of Paris (Paris)
1979 Study of fossil hominid and hominoid primate remains at the British Museum of Natural History (London), Laboratoire de Paléontologie des Vertébres et de Paléontologie humaine, University of Paris (Paris), Musée de l'homme (Paris), Collection Cotte (Lyon), Natur-Museum und Forschungs-Institut Senckenberg (Frankfurt), Geološko-Paleontološki zbirka i laboratorij za krš, 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, Faculté de Medicine, Université d’Zix-Marseille (Marseille), Laboratoire de Paléontologie des Vertébres et de Paléontologie Humaine, University of Paris (Paris), British Museum of Natural History (London), Slovenské Narodné Múzeum (Bratislava), Geološko-Paleontološki 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, Institüt für Anthropologie und Humangenetic Universität Tubingen, Anthropologische Staatsamlungen München, Anthropos Institute Morvaské Muzeum (Brno), Hrvatski prirodoslovini muzej (Zagreb), and site visits to Předmostí, 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 Morvaské Muzeum (Brno); site visits to Vindija (Croatia), Crvena Stijena [Red Cave] (Monte Negro), and in Moravia Mladeč, Dolní 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 Dolní Věstonice specimens at Dolní Věstonice and Anthropos Institute, Brno; study of Pavlov and Zlatý Kůn at the Antropologické Oddělení, Národní 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. Césaire, Marillac specimens, Combe Grenal specimens, Biache, and a cast of Saltzgitter-Lebenstedt at the Paleoanthropology Laboratory, Université 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.
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 Préhistoriques 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 Congrčs International de Paléontologie 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. Jelínek) 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. Jelínek, 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 Paleontología 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 Jelínek: Changements Biologiques et Culturels en Europe de la fin du Paléolithique Moyen au Néolithique: 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, XVth (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 5th 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 5th 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. Jelínek, 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. Jelínek) 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,” 2nd 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 Vértesszöllös II an Occipital of Homo erectus? Nature 232:567-568.
Vértesszöllös 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