Milford H. Wolpoff (born in 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is a physical anthropologist. He is the major proponent of the Multiregional Evolution hypothesis that attempts to explain the evolution of Homo sapiens. It suggests that after an African origin of Homo sapiens (evolving from Homo ergaster/Homo erectus) local evolutionary events took place in several places (Africa, Europe, Asia etc), whereby populations of Homo erectus and Homo ergaster evolved separately in to populations of Homo sapiens through a range of intermediate species (all the time the geographically distinct populations maintained small amounts of gene flow). This largely discredited idea has failed to challenge the supremacy of the Out of Africa model (which suggests that Homo sapiens evolved in Africa and then dispersed throughout the old world replacing in situ populations of other hominin species) which is supported by the overwhelming mass of evidence seen in the fossil and genetic records. Physical anthropology, sometimes called biological anthropology, studies the mechanisms of biological evolution, genetic inheritance, human adaptability and variation, primatology, primate morphology, and the fossil record of human evolution. ...
Dr. Wolpoff's books:
Race and Human Evolution: A Fatal Attraction, ISBN 0684810131, 1997, with Rachel Caspari.
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