“Since bears and coastal humans have an omnivorous diet that overlaps considerably, the bear story may be pointing us to the route that could have been taken by humans 12,000–15,000 years ago.” — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“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… — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share
“We differ from other large mammals, but not much from rodents, in the great variety of habitats we now occupy and in the population… — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share
“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… — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share
“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” — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share
“Perhaps, as with cars, there was a law of diminishing evolutionary return, and it was no longer economical to build models with ever larger… — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share
“Genetic palaeontology brings clarity to a field of near-medieval confusion. The” — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share
“Admittedly there could have been interbreeding between archaic and modern Homo sapiens, but there is no convincing evidence for this in our male and… — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share
“Since bears and coastal humans have an omnivorous diet that overlaps considerably, the bear story may be pointing us to the route that could… — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share
“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… — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share
“A multidisciplinary synthesis is difficult enough if the disciplines are singing different songs, but if they are in different auditoriums . . .” — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share
