Evolution and Human Origins: The Late Divergence Hypothesis
Speaker:
Milford Wolpoff
07 Nov 2007
6:00 PM
Sun Room, Memorial Union
Milford Wolpoff is a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan. He has studied fossils and tool making but is most noted for his study on human evolution. Wolpoff, a paleoanthropologist, believes in multiregional evolution states - that for about two million years humans have lived in several areas of the world and have evolved together because they met and interbred. He is the author of Paleoanthropology and Human Evolution and coauthor with Rachel Caspari of Race and Human Evolution, which won the 1999 W. W. Howells Book Prize in Biological Anthropology, presented by the American Anthropological Association. In 2002 Wolpoff was named a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association.
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This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.