Chris Stringer

Human Evolution and Behaviour MSc Develop the ability to generate, assess and synthesise empirical evidence and hypotheses related to human evolution and behaviour.

This MSc at UCL covers human evolution, human behavioural ecology, primatology and human evolutionary genetics www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Where Are the Denisovans? The Answer is in our DNA YouTube video by New Scientist

New Scientist interview me about Denisovans, Dragon Man and Yunxian youtube.com/watch?v=i3zq...

My thoughts on new human fossils from Thomas Quarry 1, Morocco

Everything We Know About Our Human Origins YouTube video by New Scientist

‘The human origin story is complex. So why not join us in our latest YouTube livestream as we explore how homo sapiens ended up colonising the planet and reveal our distant relatives’
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Earliest evidence of making fire Nature - Baked sediment, heat-shattered artefacts and introduced pyrite in a 400,000-year-old Palaeolithic occupation site in Suffolk, UK provide evidence of intentional fire-making, marking a...

"Earliest evidence of making fire" - full-text view-only version of the Nature paper, using the link below.
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The Origins of Humankind Where do we really come from?

2/2 This grew out of years of conversations I've had with some of the most thoughtful scholars on the matter, including @chrisbstringer.bsky.social , @cecileduflot.bsky.social , @vivek123.bsky.social , @lukegldng.bsky.social + the Origins of Humankind with @anthropogeny.org
Grateful to all !🙏

John Hawks and Chris Stringer: Neanderthals, Denisovans and humans, oh my!

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And many thanks to @dremmabird.bsky.social for help with this!

Yunxian does not disprove a Recent African Origin for Homo sapiens YouTube video by Chris Stringer

Yunxian does not disprove Out of Africa youtu.be/jA1I66ghcSw

Thanks for organizing this talk, @radicalanthro.bsky.social. Always fascinating to listen to @chrisbstringer.bsky.social & think about the complexities Chris touched on in his talk

Huxley Lecture 2023 - Prof Chris Stringer THE HUXLEY MEMORIAL LECTURE 2023 - Prof Chris StringerTitle: Mostly Out of Africa: how, when and where Held on Tuesday 7 November 2023 at the Natural History...

A recording of the 2023 Huxley Lecture 🏺🧪
given by Huxley Memorial Medal winner
Prof Chris Stringer @chrisbstringer.bsky.social
is now available from the RAI
youtu.be/0O6l-PjMgBs

Hybrid event UCL 11 Nov 2025, 18:30. New evidence from China helps to clarify the 'muddle in the middle' of human evolution www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

Evidence from China clarifies the 'muddle in the middle' of human evolution World-leading fossil expert Chris Stringer guides us through latest evidence on fossils, Denisovans and DNA from China

Evidence from China clarifies the 'muddle in the middle' of human evolution Tickets, Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evidence-f...

Some additional thoughts on Yunxian, Homo longi, Denisovans and the origin of Homo sapiens

Evidence from China clarifies the 'muddle in the middle' of human evolution World-leading fossil expert Chris Stringer guides us through latest evidence on fossils, Denisovans and DNA from China

Evidence from China clarifies the 'muddle in the middle' of human evolution Tickets, Tue, Nov 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evidence-f...

Rewriting Human Origins: What the 1-Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals | Chris Stringer YouTube video by Conversations with Vania

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Some additional thoughts on Yunxian, Homo longi, Denisovans and the origin of Homo sapiens

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Rewriting Human Origins: What the 1-Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals | Chris Stringer YouTube video by Conversations with Vania

youtube.com/watch?v=ONCJ...

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans Diverse forms of Homo coexisted during the Middle Pleistocene. Whether these fossil humans represent different species or clades is debated. The ~1-million-year-old Yunxian 2 fossil from China is impo...

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

My explainer about the Yunxian 2 study

#FossilFriday Replicas of Yunxian 2 reconstruction (L) and Sangiran 17 Homo erectus from Java. Our research indicates that Yunxian is not an erectus, but is an early member of the group containing Homo longi, other Chinese fossils, and Denisovan material

Our common Neanderthal ancestor could be a million years old, says Chris Stringer YouTube video by New Scientist

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Our common Neanderthal ancestor could be a million years old, says Chris Stringer YouTube video by New Scientist

youtube.com/watch?v=MA1c...

#FossilFriday Replicas of Yunxian 2 reconstruction (L) and Sangiran 17 Homo erectus from Java. Our research indicates that Yunxian is not an erectus, but is an early member of the group containing Homo longi, other Chinese fossils, and Denisovan material

Reconstruction of the Yunxian 2 cranium in standard views.

The phylogenetic position of the Yunxian cranium elucidates the origin of Homo longi and the Denisovans 🏺🧪
Xiaobo Feng, @chrisbstringer.bsky.social et al
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Morphometric and phylogenetic analyses suggest it is an early member of H. longi clade, which includes Denisovans

#Yunxian 🏺🧪

#Yunxian 🏺🧪
Reconstruction of Yunxian 2, identified as an early member of the Homo longi (Dragon Man) lineage.

This group also contains other Chinese and Denisovan fossils. Phylogenetic analyses suggest heidelbergensis, neanderthalensis, sapiens and longi lineages all originated more than 1 mya.

Million-Year-Old Skull Reveals Homo Sapiens Are Nearly Twice As Old As We Thought And our ancestors may have originated outside of Africa.

Million-Year-Old Skull Pushes Back Homo Sapiens Origins By 400,000 Years www.iflscience.com/million-year...

Chris Stringer discusses the 1 million year old Yunxian cranium YouTube video by Chris Stringer

I discuss the ~1 million year old Yunxian cranium.. youtu.be/YmtjPnuaUro?...