Professor Chris Stringer CBE, FRS is Britain’s leading palaeoanthropologist and one of the founders of the “Recent African Origin” theory, the most widely accepted model of how our species Homo sapiens evolved and spread across the globe. He has worked at the Natural History Museum London since 1973, and been involved in many of the biggest stories in human evolution over the last 50 years.
Stringer has also worked on sites and fossils from Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australasia and regularly collaborates with archaeologists, earth scientists, palaeontologists and geneticists. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society in London as well as a Member of the American Philosophical Society, and has published over 300 scientific papers, as well as authoring or co-authoring a number books, including Homo britannicus (Archaeology Book of the Year) and , The Origin of Our Species (shortlisted for Science Book of the Year).
Listed among the 100 most influential scientists in the UK and an Honorary Professor at two London Universities, Stringer is a go-to source for media comment, documentaries and consultancies on human evolution (e.g. the recent film, Out of Darkness, and the Netflix documentary Secrets of the Neanderthals). He has about 30,000 followers on X (Twitter) and audience figures for some of his broadcasts are in the millions.
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