Stephen Oppenheimer

Stephen Oppenheimer ( born 1947 ) is a British physician, member of Green College, Oxford and Honorary Professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. More recently he has published a number of books about human prehistory.

From 1972, Oppenheimer worked as a clinical pediatrician in Malaysia, Nepal and Papua New Guinea. Since 1979, he moved into the field of research and teaching at institutions such as the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Oxford University, a research center in Kilifi, Kenya and the University Sains Malaysia. From 1990 to 1994 he chaired the Department of Paediatrics of the University of Hong Kong.

In 1996 he returned to England and began a second career as a researcher and author of popular science writings on early human history. In his books he makes a synthesis of human genetics, archeology, anthropology, linguistics and folklore.

• The Origins of the British - A Genetic Detective Story. 2006, Constable and Robinson. ISBN 1-84529-158-1.
• Out of Eden. 2004, Constable and Robinson ISBN 1-84119-894-3.
• Eden in the East. 1999 Phoenix ( Orion ) ISBN 0-7538-0679-7