Chris Stringer Christopher Brian "Chris" Stringer FRS (born 1947), is a British physical Chris Stringer anthropologist noted for his work on human evolution. Contents Biography Research Honours Publications Stringer in 2012 Papers Books Born 1947 (age 71–72) See also Residence London References Alma mater University College External links London Bristol University Scientific career Biography Institutions Natural History Growing up in a working-class family in the East End of London, Stringer's interest Museum, London in anthropology began in primary school, where he undertook a project on Thesis A multivariate study of [1] [2] Neanderthals. Stringer studied anthropology at University College London, cranial variation in holds a PhD in Anatomical Science and a DSc in Anatomical Science (both from middle and upper [3] Bristol University. Pleistocene human populations (1974) Stringer joined the permanent staff of the Natural History Museum in 1973. He is currently Research Leader in Human Origins. Doctoral Jonathan H. Musgrave advisor He has three children and lives in London. Research 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 also directed the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project which ran for about 10 years from 2001. This consortium reconstructed and studied the episodic pattern of human colonisation of Britain during the Pleistocene. He is co-director of the follow-up project "Pathways to Ancient Britain".[4] Honours He is 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[5] Publications Papers C.B. Stringer; P. Andrews (1988). Genetic and Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Modern Humans. Science. 239. pp. 1263–1268. doi:10.1126/science.3125610. PMID 3125610. C.B. Stringer (2002). Modern human origins – progress and prospects. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 357. pp. 563–579. doi:10.1098/rstb.2001.1057. Books Stringer, Chris, ed. (1981). Aspects of human evolution: Symposium on human evolution, January 1980. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-85066-209-5. Stringer, Chris (1986). "The credibility ofHomo habilis". In B. Wood, L.; Martin, P. Andrews. Major topics in primate and human evolution. p. 266. ISBN 978-0-521-11338-0. Chris Stringer (1989). "Neandertals, their contemporaries and modern human origins".In Giacomo Giacobini. Hominidae: Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress of Human Paleontology. Turin, September 28 – October 3, 1987. pp. 351–356. ISBN 88-16-28026-3. Peter Andrews; Chris Stringer (1989).Human Evolution: An Illustrated Guide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-38824-4. Paul Mellars & Chris Stringer (Editors) (1989).The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans. Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-0-691-08539-5. Chris Stringer; Robin McKie (1997).African Exodus. The Origins of Modern Humanity. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 0-8050-2759-9. Christopher B. Stringer, R.N.E. Barton, J.C. Finlayson (Editors) (2000).Neanderthals on the Edge: Papers from a Conference Marking the 150th Anniversary of the Forbes' Quarry Discovery, Gibraltar. Oxford: Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-1-84217-015-1. "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 Chris Stringer; Peter Andrews (2005).The Complete World of Human Evolution. London & New York: Thames & Hudson..[6] ISBN 0-500-05132-1 Chris Stringer (2007). Homo britannicus. The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain. London: Penguin. ISBN 0-14- 101813-5.[7] Chris Stringer (2011). The Origin of Our Species. London: Allen Lane. ISBN 978-1-84614-140-9., published in the United States in 2012 retitled asLone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth. London: Times Books. ISBN 978-0805088915. See also Happisburgh footprints References 1. Ryan, Hannah F. "Professor Chris Stringer" (http://www.ijsra.org/interview-chris-stringer). International Journal of Student Research in Archaeology. Retrieved 12 October 2016. 2. Stringer, C. (2006), Homo britannicus, p. 183, London: Penguin Books,ISBN 978-0-14-101813-3 3. University of Bristol Alumni – Faculty of Medical and Veterinary Sciences (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/featured/m v-sciences/) Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20120328094336/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/featured/mv-sci ences/) 28 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine 4. Chris Stringer's Home Page at Natural History Museum (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/st aff-directory/chris-stringer.html#sthash.DhQkUbBm.dpuf) 5. List of recipients of Rivers Memorial medal (http://www.therai.org.uk/awards/honours-prior-recipients/rivers-memorial -medal-prior-recipients/) 6. "The Complete World of Human Evolution" (https://web.archive.org/web/20060620142213/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/busi ness-centre/publishing/det_humevol.html). The Natural History Museum. Archived fromthe original (http://www.nhm. ac.uk/business-centre/publishing/det_humevol.html) on 20 June 2006. Retrieved 19 January 2009. 7. "Stringer wins Kistler Book Award" (https://web.archive.org/web/20090725005136/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/ne ws/2008/march/stringer-wins-kistler-book-award.html). The Natural History Museum. 13 March 2008. Archived from the original (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/march/stringer-wins-kistler-book-award.html) on 25 July 2009. Retrieved 19 January 2009. 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