Chris Stringer

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For the former professional football player, see Chris Stringer (footballer).
Chris Stringer
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Stringer in 2012
Born 1947 (age 76–77)
Residence London
Institutions Natural History Museum, London
Alma mater University College London
Bristol University
Thesis A multivariate study of cranial variation in middle and upper Pleistocene human populations (1974)
Doctoral advisor Jonathan H. Musgrave

Christopher Brian "Chris" Stringer FRS, (born 1947), is a British anthropologist.

Biography

Stringer studied anthropology at University College London,[1] and holds a PhD in Anatomical Science, and a DSc in Anatomical Science both from Bristol University.[2]

Stringer is a Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum, director of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society and Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He won the 2008 Frink Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the Rivers Memorial Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2004[3]

He has three children and lives in London.

Research

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Stringer is one of the leading proponents of the recent African origin hypothesis or "Out of Africa" theory, which hypothesizes that modern humans originated in Africa over 100,000 years ago and replaced, in some way, the world's archaic humans, such as Homo floresiensis and Neanderthals, after migrating within and then out of Africa to the non-African world within the last 50,000 to 100,000 years. He always considered that some interbreeding between the different groups could have occurred, but thought this would have been trivial in the big picture. However, recent genetic data show that the replacement process did include some interbreeding. In the last decade he has proposed a more complex version of events within Africa, which he has termed "coalescent African origin".

He has also directed three phases of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project since 2001. This consortium has been reconstructing and studying the episodic pattern of human colonisation of Britain during the Pleistocene.

Publications

Papers

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Books

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  • "Introduction to the fiftieth anniversary edition of The Piltdown Forgery" (pp. vii–x | and "Afterword: Piltdown 2003" (pp. 188–201). In The Piltdown Forgery By J. S. Weiner (2003) Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860780-6
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References

  1. ↑ Stringer, C. (2006), Homo britannicus, p. 183, London: Penguin Books, ISBN 978-0-14-101813-3
  2. ↑ University of Bristol Alumni – Faculty of Medical and Veterinary Sciences
  3. ↑ List of recipients of Rivers Memorial medal
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External links

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