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Stasis in the interpretation of evolution in Homo erectus: a reply to Rightmire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2016

Milford H. Wolpoff
Milford H. Wolpoff*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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Focusing on the question of trends in Homo erectus cranial capacity evolution, Rightmire contends to have reanalyzed the data and demonstrated “a pattern of change … quite different from that described by Wolpoff.” Accepting the procedures used in this earlier analysis (Wolpoff 1984), he does this by changing the composition of the Homo erectus sample.

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Stasis in Homo Erectus?
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Paleobiology , Volume 12 , Issue 3 , Summer 1986 , pp. 325 - 328
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