Chris Stringer

Growing up in a working-class family in the East End of London, Stringer first took an interest in anthropology during primary school, when he undertook a project on Neanderthals.{{cite web|last1=Ryan|first1=Hannah F.|title=Professor Chris Stringer|url=http://www.ijsra.org/interview-chris-stringer|website=International Journal of Student Research in Archaeology|access-date=12 October 2016|archive-date=13 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013080326/http://www.ijsra.org/interview-chris-stringer|url-status=dead}} Stringer studied anthropology at University College London,Stringer, C. (2006), Homo britannicus, p. 183, London: Penguin Books, {{ISBN|978-0-14-101813-3}} holds a PhD in Anatomical Science and a DSc in Anatomical Science (both from Bristol University).[http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/featured/mv-sciences/ University of Bristol Alumni – Faculty of Medical and Veterinary Sciences] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328094336/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alumni/featured/mv-sciences/ |date=28 March 2012 }}

Stringer joined the permanent staff of the Natural History Museum in 1973. He is currently Research Leader in Human Origins.

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Stringer was previously 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.{{Cite journal |last=Eiland |first=Murray |date=2020 |others=Interview with Chris Stringer |title=Out of Africa, Neanderthals, and Mitochondrial Eve |url=https://www.academia.edu/89136731 |journal=Antiqvvs |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=39–42}} 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 ″multiregional 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".[http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/chris-stringer.html#sthash.DhQkUbBm.dpuf Chris Stringer's Home Page at Natural History Museum]

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[http://www.therai.org.uk/awards/honours-prior-recipients/rivers-memorial-medal-prior-recipients/ List of recipients of Rivers Memorial medal]

He was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.

Stringer was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2023 New Year Honours for services to the understanding of human evolution.{{London Gazette|issue=63918|supp=y|page=N11|date=31 December 2022}}

• {{cite journal|year=1988 |last1=Stringer|first1=Chris |last2=Andrews|first2=Peter|title=Genetic and Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Modern Humans |journal=Science |volume=239 |issue=4845 |pages=1263–1268 |doi=10.1126/science.3125610 |pmid=3125610|bibcode=1988Sci...239.1263S }}
• {{cite journal|year=2002 |last1=Stringer|first1=Chris |title=Modern human origins – progress and prospects|journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B|volume=357|issue=1420 |pages=563–579 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2001.1057|pmid=12028792 |pmc=1692961 }}
• {{cite journal | last = Stringer | first = Chris | year = 2022 | title = The development of ideas about a recent African origin for Homo sapiens| url = https://www.isita-org.com/jass/Contents/2022vol100/Stringer/36511798.pdf | journal = Journal of Anthropological Sciences | volume = 100 | issue = 100 | pages = 5–18 | doi = 10.4436/jass.10009 | pmid = 36511798 }}

• {{cite book|editor1-last=Stringer |editor1-first=Chris|year=1981| title= Aspects of human evolution: Symposium on human evolution, January 1980| place=London| publisher= Taylor & Francis|isbn=0-85066-209-5}}
• {{cite book|last1=Stringer|first1=Chris|year=1986 |chapter=The credibility of Homo habilis|editor1-last=Wood |editor1-first=Bernard A. |editor2-last=Martin |editor2-first=Lawrence B. |editor3-last=Andrews |editor3-first=Peter |title= Major topics in primate and human evolution|page=266|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-11338-0}}
• {{cite book|year=1989|last1=Stringer|first1=Chris| chapter=Neandertals, their contemporaries and modern human origins| title=Hominidae: Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress of Human Paleontology. Turin, September 28 – October 3, 1987|editor1-last=Giacobini |editor1-first= Giacomo|pages=351–356|publisher=Editoriale Jaca Book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wTnWJGnBwgUC&q=Giacobini+Hominidae |isbn= 88-16-28026-3}}
• {{cite book|year=1989 |last1=Andrews|first1=Peter |last2=Stringer|first2=Chris |title= Human Evolution: An Illustrated Guide |place= Cambridge |publisher= Cambridge University Press |isbn= 0-521-38824-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ke7_cl6tQ1EC&q=%22Chris+Stringer%22}}
• {{cite book|year=1989|editor1-last=Mellars|editor1-first=Paul|editor2-last=Stringer|editor2-first=Chris|title=The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans |publisher=Princeton University Press | isbn= 978-0-691-08539-5}}
• {{cite book |year=1997 |last1=Stringer|first1=Chris|last2=McKie|first2=Robin |title=African Exodus. The Origins of Modern Humanity |place=New York |publisher=Henry Holt |isbn=0-8050-2759-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/africanexodusori00stri }}
• {{cite book|year=2000 |editor1-last=Stringer|editor1-first=Chris |editor2-last=Barton |editor2-first=R.N.E. |editor3-last=Finlayson |editor3-first=J.C.|title= Neanderthals on the Edge: Papers from a Conference Marking the 150th Anniversary of the Forbes' Quarry Discovery, Gibraltar |place=Oxford |publisher=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}}
• {{cite book|year=2005|last1=Stringer|first1=Chris |last2=Andrews|first2=Peter |title=The Complete World of Human Evolution |place=London & New York| publisher=Thames & Hudson}}.{{cite web|url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/business-centre/publishing/det_humevol.html |title=The Complete World of Human Evolution |publisher=The Natural History Museum |access-date=19 January 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060620142213/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/business-centre/publishing/det_humevol.html |archive-date=20 June 2006 }} {{ISBN|0-500-05132-1}}
• {{cite book|year=2007|last1=Stringer|first1=Chris|title=Homo britannicus. The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain|place=London|publisher=Penguin|isbn=978-0-14-101813-3|url=https://archive.org/details/homobritannicus00chri}}{{cite news|url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/march/stringer-wins-kistler-book-award.html |title=Stringer wins Kistler Book Award |date=13 March 2008 |publisher=The Natural History Museum |access-date=19 January 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725005136/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/march/stringer-wins-kistler-book-award.html |archive-date=25 July 2009 }}
• {{cite book|year=2011|last1=Stringer|first1=Chris|title=The Origin of Our Species|place=London|publisher=Allen Lane|isbn=978-1-84614-140-9}}, published in the United States in 2012 retitled as {{cite book|title=Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth|date=13 March 2012|place=London|publisher=Times Books|isbn=978-0805088915|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/lonesurvivorshow0000stri}}

• Happisburgh footprints

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• [https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/chris-stringer.html Prof Chris Stringer's Home Page at Natural History Museum]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20120802170634/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2006/october/news_9663.html Natural History Museum Homo britannicus news (11 October 2006)]
• [http://www.ahobproject.org/ AHOB Home Page]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140118135909/http://www.worldlandtrust.org/news/2008/06/expert-on-human-origins-donates-prize.htm World Land Trust Supporter news (Wednesday, 25 June 2008)]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20130107065945/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2008/november/stringers-homo-britannicus-book-wins-award23505.html Homo britannicus Archaeology award (13 November 2008)]
• [http://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/reset/embed.php RESET Project] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929032035/http://c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/reset/embed.php |date=29 September 2011 }}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20121011125500/http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2005/may/news_4850.html Human Evolution book news (19 May 2005)]

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