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Christopher Brian Stringer FRS, better known as Chris Stringer, (born 1947) is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

anthropologist.

He is one of the leading proponents of the recent single-origin hypothesis or "Out of Africa" theory, which hypothesizes that modern humans originated in Africa over 100,000 years ago and replaced the world's archaic human

Human

Humans are the only living species in the Homo genus...

species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

, such as Homo erectus

Homo erectus

Homo erectus is an extinct species of hominid that lived from the end of the Pliocene epoch to the later Pleistocene, about . The species originated in Africa and spread as far as India, China and Java. There is still disagreement on the subject of the classification, ancestry, and progeny of H...

and Neanderthal

Neanderthal

The Neanderthal is an extinct member of the Homo genus known from Pleistocene specimens found in Europe and parts of western and central Asia...

s, after migrating within and then out of Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

to the non-African world within the last 50,000 to 100,000 years.

Life

He studied anthropology at University College London

University College London

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, and holds a PhD in Anatomical Science, and a DSc in Anatomical Science both from Bristol University.

He is a Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum

Natural History Museum

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.
He is director of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project.
He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society. He won the 2008 Frink Medal

Frink Medal

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of the Zoological Society of London

Zoological Society of London

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.

He has three children and lives in Sussex

Sussex

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Books

"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. ISBN 0-500-05132-1

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