Stephen Oppenheimer

“Genetic palaeontology brings clarity to a field of near-medieval confusion. The”

— Stephen Oppenheimer

“Were they like Star Trek’s Star-Base 9, polyglot,”

— Stephen Oppenheimer

“We differ from other large mammals, but not much from rodents, in the great variety of habitats we now occupy and in…

— Stephen Oppenheimer

“Perhaps, as with cars, there was a law of diminishing evolutionary return, and it was no longer economical to build models with…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Stephen Oppenheimer

“A multidisciplinary synthesis is difficult enough if the disciplines are singing different songs, but if they are in different auditoriums . . .”

— Stephen Oppenheimer

“Since bears and coastal humans have an omnivorous diet that overlaps considerably, the bear story may be pointing us to the route…

— Stephen Oppenheimer

“Admittedly there could have been interbreeding between archaic and modern Homo sapiens, but there is no convincing evidence for this in our…

— Stephen Oppenheimer