Chris Stringer

Chris Stringer is a Professor and Merit Researcher at The Natural History Museum, London (since 1973), and is also a Research Leader in Human Origins and a Fellow of the Royal Society. His early research was on the relationship of Neanderthals and early modern humans in Europe, but through his work on the Recent African Origin model for modern human origins, he now collaborates with archaeologists, dating specialists, and geneticists in attempting to reconstruct the evolution of modern humans globally. He is currently leading the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project in its third phase (AHOB3), funded by the Leverhulme Trust. He has published over 200 scientific papers, and his recent books include Homo Britannicus (Penguin Books, 2006), The Complete World of Human Evolution (Thames and Hudson, 2011) with Peter Andrews, and Lone Survivors (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2012).