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The Australian pygmies. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
SIR: Our critics (Letters, September 2002) miss the point of our survey of the unresolved controversies surrounding Birdsell's work. We made no claims to being scientific specialists; our journalistic account simply compared the views of rival academics in this debate and gave the less well known view the last word. Readers may accept, reject or, better still, investigate further for themselves. In particular we highlighted Birdsell's unanswered challenge, something our critics also seem to have missed.
Sean Ulm argues that archaeologists are quite "vigorous" and "open" to multiple-wave ideas. Maybe so, but as far as communicating this to the general public, ...
- NEW THEORY PROPOSED ON ORIGINS OF LANGUAGE
- Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN) January 16, 1989 700+ words
...chimpanzees and apes, strongly confirms that finding. That assertion was strongly criticized by some anthropologists, including Milford Wolpoff of the University of Michigan, who said evidence from fossils ''clearly and unambiguously contradicts" it. Wilson puzzled...
- 110,000-year-old human fossil found in China challenges 'out of Africa' theory.
- News wire article from: Asian News International November 4, 2009 700+ words
...uniquely African origin and supports the notion that emerging African populations mixed with natives they encountered," said Milford Wolpoff, a proponent of the multiregional hypothesis at the University of Michigan. The present analysis of the mandible focused...
- Oldest human fossil 'from a gorilla'.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) October 10, 2002 700+ words
...lineage.' But yesterday the results of a new investigation threatened to pull the rug from under the Frenchman's feet. Milford Wolpoff, from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and three American and French colleagues have set out detailed evidence...
- The Inheritors. (book reviews)
- Antiquity Graves-Brown, Paul December 1, 1996 700+ words
...discovered pyramid power or ley lines. Science: fiction Joking apart, novelists have produced some original accounts of what Milford Wolpoff (1989: 98) once called 'a scientific rendering of the story of Cain'. Indeed, at times, 'the scientific and popular...
- ROCK ART MAY BE EARLIEST SIGN OF ARTISTIC BEHAVIOR.(NEWS)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) September 21, 1996 700+ words
...Africa 100,000 to 150,000 years ago and then spread to the rest of the world. ``It's incredibly exciting,'' said Milford Wolpoff, a paleontologist at the University of Michigan who was familiar with much of the research. A full scientific report on...
- Humans still evolving - at least in theory.
- Magazine article from: Insight on the News Goode, Stephen September 5, 1994 700+ words
...uncertainty about human ancestry. "You can almost say there are no intermediates" between modern man and his forebears, says Milford Wolpoff, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan. There's "no Rubicon that is crossed" where we can say ancient humans...
- Bone people: human evolution.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) February 15, 1992 700+ words
...of Neanderthal teeth and found them similar to those of present-day Europeans and very different from modern Africans. Milford Wolpoff, also from Michigan, reviewed evidence for continuity between Neanderthals and moderns in Middle Eastern fossils. This...
- Language born in African woman, scientist suggests
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times January 16, 1989 700+ words
...chimpanzees and apes, strongly confirms his findings. That assertion was criticized by some anthropologists, including Milford Wolpoff of the University of Michigan, who said evidence from fossils "clearly and unambiguously contradicts" it. To buttress...
