Chris Stringer

Christopher Brian Stringer, mostly: Chris Stringer, ( born December 31, 1947 in East Ham in today Borough of Newham London ) is a British paleoanthropologist. He became internationally known as a leading representative of the out-of -Africa theory for the evolutionary history of anatomically modern humans ( Homo sapiens). He is Head of the Department for the Study of the origin of man ( " Head of Human Origins ") at the Natural History Museum in London and since 1995 visiting professor at the Royal Holloway College, University of London.

Life

Chris Stringer attended from 1959 to 1965, the East Ham Grammar School and studied from 1966 Anthropology at University College London. After the bachelor's degree (1969 ) he moved to the University of Bristol, where he studied anatomy to obtain a doctoral degree, ( Ph.D., 1974) in this subject. In 1990, he acquired, also in Bristol, a second doctoral degree ( D.Sc. ). Since 1973, Stringer has worked for the Natural History Museum, first as Principal Scientific Officer, since 1999 as research director of the workspace Human Origins to the phylogeny of man.

Stringer is since 2001 director of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project and author of several excellent books with trade prices to paleoanthropological topics. Since 2004 he is member of the Royal Society.

Research Topics

In his work, Chris Stringer is particularly concerned with the Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans in Europe and with its complex history. Already at Bristol University he developed on the basis of anatomical studies, the certainty that in the 1970s from one part of paleoanthropologists represented doctrine is wrong, the Neanderthals were direct ancestors of modern humans. His comparative studies on various skulls - including the so-called Broken Hill Skull - were rather evidence that the early Neanderthals were similar to modern man than the late. In 1982 Günter Bräuer introduced in the late 1970s, the African finds and their dates had analyzed his research results in the 1st International Congress on Paleoanthropology in Nice before. You said, " that there had been an evolution to man only in Africa and that it was there occurred much earlier than in any other region of the world "; Bräuer has since been considered one of the founders of the Out - of-Africa theory. These conclusions from studies of African fossils fit seamlessly with the findings stringer from the analysis of skeletal remains of European Neanderthals and had the consequence that a stringer of the most aggressive opponents of the hypothesis of the multiregional origin of modern humans was. In this view, he saw himself later confirmed as genetic data, the sole emergence of man in Africa also close submitted.

Stringer has carried out excavations in the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, Turkey and Morocco.

As director of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain Project, he is co- author of numerous studies on the first settlement of the British Isles by individuals of the genus Homo.

Awards

  • 2011: Coke Medal of the Geological Society of London
  • 2009: Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Kent
  • 2009 Frink Medal of the Zoological Society of London
  • 2004: Rivers Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
  • 2000: Henry Stopes Medal of the Geologists ' Association
  • 2000 Honorary Doctorate of Law, University of Bristol
  • 1998 Osman Hill Medal of the Primate Society of Great Britain
  • 1988: Lyell Lectureship of the British Association for the Advancement of Science

Works (selection)

Essays

  • The status of Homo heidelbergensis ( Schoetensack 1908). In: Evolutionary Anthropology. Volume 21, No. 3, 2012, pp. 101-107, doi: 10.1002/evan.21311, Full text ( PDF)
  • With Jean -Jacques Hublin: New age estimates for the Swanscombe hominid, and Their Significance for human evolution. In: Journal of Human Evolution. Volume 37, 1999, pp. 873-877, doi: 10.1006/jhev.1999.0367, full text (PDF, 77 kB)
  • The dates of Eden. In: Nature. Volume 331, No. 6157, 1988, pp. 565-566, doi: 10.1038/331565a0
  • Peter Andrews: Genetic and Fossil Evidence for the Origin of Modern Humans. In: Science. Volume 239, No. 4845, 1988, pp. 1263-1268, doi: 10.1126/science.3125610
  • With Jean -Jacques Hublin and Bernard Vandermeersch: The origin of anatomically modern humans in western Europe. In: Fred H. Smith, Frank Spencer (ed.): The origins of modern humans: a world survey of the fossil evidence. Liss, New York, 1984, pp. 51-135
  • Some problems in Middle and Upper Pleistocene hominid relationships. In: D. Chivers, K. Joysey (ed.): Recent Advances in Primatology, Vol 3: Evolution. Academic Press, London, 1978, p 395-418
  • Population relationships of later Pleistocene hominids: a multivariate study of available crania. In: Journal of Archaeological Sciences. Volume 1, 1974, pp. 317-342, doi: 10.1016/0305-4403 (74) 90051- X
  • The Origin of Our Species. Penguin / Allen Lane, 2011 ISBN 978-1846141409 published in the U.S. under the title: Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth. Times Books, 2012, ISBN 978-0805088915
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