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Milford Wolpoff

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Milford Wolpoff · Philosophy & Social Sciences

What

Paleoanthropologist and leading proponent of the multiregional hypothesis of human evolution

When

1942, Chicago, Illinois, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Milford Wolpoff is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Paleoanthropologist and leading proponent of the multiregional hypothesis of human evolution

How & why

Milford Wolpoff is an American paleoanthropologist and professor emeritus at the University of Michigan who became the leading proponent of the multiregional hypothesis, which holds that modern humans evolved through continuous gene flow across regional populations rather than a single African replacement. He was born to a Jewish family in Chicago.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Anthropology

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Paleoanthropologist and leading proponent of the multiregional hypothesis of human evolution

1942

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Anthropology