Valeri Pavlovich Alekseyev (sometimes spelled as Alexseev) was a Russian anthropologist, director of the Institute of Archaeology in Moscow (1987–1991) and member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, exceptionally without having been a member of the Communist Party.

Alekseev proposed Homo rudolfensis

Homo rudolfensis

Homo rudolfensis is a fossil human species discovered by Bernard Ngeneo, a member of a team led by anthropologist Richard Leakey and zoologist Meave Leakey in 1972, at Koobi Fora on the east side of Lake Rudolf in Kenya. The scientific name Pithecanthropus rudolfensis was proposed in 1978 by V. P...

in 1986.

Alekseev has published 20 books and some 500 articles.

• Историческая антропология и этногенез (Historical anthropology and ethnogenesis) (1989)
• География человеческих рас (Geography of the human race)
• The Origin of the Human Race, Progress Publishers (1986), ISBN 978-0828533256.
• Палеоантропология земного шара и формирование человеческих рас (Global paleoanthropology and the formation of the human races)
• Происхождение народов Восточной Европы (Origin of the peoples of Eastern Europe)
• Происхождение народов Кавказа (Origin of the peoples of the Caucasus)

External links

• The Alexeev Manuscript, 1991 lectures held in Harvard.
• biography (ido.edu.ru)