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> [“Admittedly there could have been interbreeding between archaic and modern Homo sapiens, but there is no convincing evidence for this in our male and female gene lines. So,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-oppenheimer/admittedly-there-could-have-been-interbreeding-between-archaic-and/)

[Stephen Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-oppenheimer/)

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## More by Stephen Oppenheimer

> [“Before the LGM there were no brown bears in southern Canada, but they had spread across there by 13,000 years ago. Their mitochondrial group…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-oppenheimer/before-the-lgm-there-were-no-brown-bears-in-southern-canada-but-they/)

[Stephen Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-oppenheimer/)

> [“We differ from other large mammals, but not much from rodents, in the great variety of habitats we now occupy and in the population…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-oppenheimer/we-differ-from-other-large-mammals-but-not-much-from-rodents-in-the/)

[Stephen Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-oppenheimer/)

> [“Were they like Star Trek’s Star-Base 9, polyglot,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-oppenheimer/were-they-like-star-trek-s-star-base-9-polyglot/)

[Stephen Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-oppenheimer/)

> [“In Africa by 1.2 million years ago the brains of Homo rhodesiense had grown to within 6 per cent of the volume of modern…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-oppenheimer/in-africa-by-1-2-million-years-ago-the-brains-of-homo-rhodesiense-had/)

[Stephen Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-oppenheimer/)

> [“If one were to rely solely on radiocarbon dating, the whole human world would seem to have started just over 40,000 years ago. Only”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-oppenheimer/if-one-were-to-rely-solely-on-radiocarbon-dating-the-whole-human/)

[Stephen Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-oppenheimer/)

> [“Perhaps, as with cars, there was a law of diminishing evolutionary return, and it was no longer economical to build models with ever larger…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-oppenheimer/perhaps-as-with-cars-there-was-a-law-of-diminishing-evolutionary/)

[Stephen Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-oppenheimer/)

> [“Genetic palaeontology brings clarity to a field of near-medieval confusion. The”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-oppenheimer/genetic-palaeontology-brings-clarity-to-a-field-of-near-medieval/)

[Stephen Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-oppenheimer/)

> [“Admittedly there could have been interbreeding between archaic and modern Homo sapiens, but there is no convincing evidence for this in our male and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-oppenheimer/admittedly-there-could-have-been-interbreeding-between-archaic-and/)

[Stephen Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-oppenheimer/)

> [“Since bears and coastal humans have an omnivorous diet that overlaps considerably, the bear story may be pointing us to the route that could…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-oppenheimer/since-bears-and-coastal-humans-have-an-omnivorous-diet-that-overlaps/)

[Stephen Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-oppenheimer/)

> [“It turns out that, far from the world being a common genetic melting pot with massive to-and-fro prehistoric movements and mixings, the majority of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-oppenheimer/it-turns-out-that-far-from-the-world-being-a-common-genetic-melting/)

[Stephen Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-oppenheimer/)

> [“A multidisciplinary synthesis is difficult enough if the disciplines are singing different songs, but if they are in different auditoriums . . .”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-oppenheimer/a-multidisciplinary-synthesis-is-difficult-enough-if-the-disciplines/)

[Stephen Oppenheimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-oppenheimer/)

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