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List of works by Christopher B. Stringer

82,000-year-old shell beads from North Africa and implications for the origins of modern human behavior

scientific article (publication date: 12 June 2007)

A genetic analysis of the Gibraltar Neanderthals

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

A geometric morphometric study of regional differences in the ontogeny of the modern human facial skeleton

scientific article

A rich locality in South Kensington: the fossil hominin collection of the Natural History Museum, London

scientific article published in 2015

African Exodus. The Origins of Modern Humanity

book by Chris Stringer

An Upper Palaeolithic engraved human bone associated with ritualistic cannibalism.

scientific article

An early Aurignacian arrival in southwestern Europe

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

Ancient genomes indicate population replacement in Early Neolithic Britain

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Apidima Cave fossils provide earliest evidence of Homo sapiens in Eurasia

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Author Correction: Ancient genomes indicate population replacement in Early Neolithic Britain

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Book review

scientific article published in June 1974

Cannibalism versus funerary defleshing and disarticulation after a period of decay: comparisons of bone modifications from four prehistoric sites.

scientific article

Close correspondence between quantitative- and molecular-genetic divergence times for Neandertals and modern humans

scientific article (publication date: 25 March 2008)

Comment on “A global environmental crisis 42,000 years ago”

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Computer simulations show that Neanderthal facial morphology represents adaptation to cold and high energy demands, but not heavy biting

scientific article published in April 2018

Confirmation of a late middle Pleistocene age for the Omo Kibish 1 cranium by direct uranium-series dating

scientific article

Correction to 'New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created 'Piltdown Man''

scientific article

Correction: The Later Stone Age Calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: Morphology and Chronology

Cultured minds

scientific article published in Nature

Dating the skull from Broken Hill, Zambia, and its position in human evolution

scientific article published on 01 April 2020

Deciphering the Denisovans

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Dental evidence for ontogenetic differences between modern humans and Neanderthals

scientific article

Development of Middle Stone Age innovation linked to rapid climate change

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Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter?

scientific article published in 2018

Direct radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis of the Darra-i-Kur (Afghanistan) human temporal bone

scientific article

Do modern humans and Neandertals have different patterns of cranial integration?

scientific article published on April 3, 2011

ESR and U-series analyses of enamel and dentine fragments of the Banyoles mandible

scientific article

Earliest Directly-Dated Human Skull-Cups

scientific article published on February 16, 2011

Early Human Evolution in the Western Palaearctic: Ecological Scenarios

scientific article published in June 2011

Early Pleistocene human occupation at the edge of the boreal zone in northwest Europe.

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Effects of brain and facial size on basicranial form in human and primate evolution

scientific article

Electronic removal of encrustations inside the Steinheim cranium reveals paranasal sinus features and deformations, and provides a revised endocranial volume estimate

scientific article

Evaluating the mitochondrial timescale of human evolution

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Evidence for new Neanderthal teeth in Tabun Cave (Israel) by the application of self-organizing maps (SOMs).

scientific article

Evolution of the base of the brain in highly encephalized human species

scientific article

Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures?

scientific article

Evolution: What makes a modern human

scientific article

Extreme glacial cooling likely led to hominin depopulation of Europe in the Early Pleistocene

scientific article published on 10 August 2023

Fifty years after: Egbert, an early Upper Palaeolithic juvenile from Ksar Akil, Lebanon

Fossil care and fossil studies: Andy Currant, former curator of the fossil mammals collections at the Natural History Museum, London

scientific article published in 2015

Geometric morphometric study of the regional variation of modern human craniofacial form

scientific article published on January 1, 2002

Gorham's Cave, Gibraltar—The persistence of a Neanderthal population

scientific article

Holocene humans at Pontnewydd and Cae Gronw caves

Hominin footprints from early Pleistocene deposits at Happisburgh, UK

scientific article published on 7 February 2014

Homo heidelbergensis.

scientific article

How did Homo sapiens evolve?

scientific article published in Science

How we got here

scientific article published in Nature

Human evolution: Out of Ethiopia

scientific article

Human evolution: Small remains still pose big problems

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Human migration: Climate and the peopling of the world

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In Search of the Neandertals: Solving the Puzzle of Human Origins

scientific article published in 1994

Introduction: the Palaeolithic occupation of Europe. A tribute to John J. Wymer, 1928–2006

Introgression, hominin dispersal and megafaunal survival in Late Pleistocene Island Southeast Asia

scientific article

Investigating the Effect of the Environment on Prey Detection Ability in Humans

scientific article published on 15 May 2019

Issues of theory and method in the analysis of Paleolithic mortuary behavior: A view from Shanidar Cave

scientific article published on 11 July 2020

Itaakpa, a Late Stone Age site in southwestern Nigeria

scientific article published in August 2012

Late survival of Neanderthals at the southernmost extreme of Europe

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Major transitions in human evolution

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Massive cranium from Harbin in northeastern China establishes a new Middle Pleistocene human lineage

scientific article published on 28 August 2021

Methods, Misreading, and Bias

article

Middle Paleolithic shell beads in Israel and Algeria

scientific article published in June 2006

Middle Stone Age human teeth from Magubike rockshelter, Iringa Region, Tanzania

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Modern human origins : distinguishing the models

scholarly article by Chris Stringer published in January 2001

Modern human origins: progress and prospects

scientific article (publication date: 29 April 2002)

Multiplexed SNP typing of ancient DNA clarifies the origin of Andaman mtDNA haplogroups amongst South Asian tribal populations

scientific article

Multivariate analysis and classification of the Apidima 2 cranium from Mani, Southern Greece

scientific article published on 30 November 2010

Neanderthal dates debated

scientific article published in Nature

Neuromandibular integration in humans and chimpanzees: Implications for dental and mandibular reduction in Homo

scientific article published on 08 May 2018

New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created 'Piltdown man'.

scientific article

New hominin teeth from Stajnia Cave, Poland

scientific article published on 05 January 2021

New insights into differences in brain organization between Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans

scientific article (publication date: 7 May 2013)

New insights into mid-late Pleistocene fossil hominin paranasal sinus morphology

scientific article published in November 2008

Newly recognized Pleistocene human teeth from Tabun Cave, Israel

scientific article

Nubian Levallois technology associated with southernmost Neanderthals

scientific article published on 15 February 2021

On the reliability of recent tests of the Out of Africa hypothesis for modern human origins

scientific article published in August 2004

Ontogeny of the maxilla in Neanderthals and their ancestors

scientific article

Open data and digital morphology

scientific article (publication date: 12 April 2017)

Palaeoanthropology and palaeolithic archaeology in the People's Republic of China

scholarly article by Chris Stringer published in May 1986

Palaeoanthropology. Coasting out of Africa

scientific article published in May 2000

Palaeoanthropology: On the origin of our species

scientific article

Palaeoanthropology: the coast in colour

scientific article

Palaeontology: The 100-year mystery of Piltdown Man.

scientific article

Pigments from the Middle Palaeolithic levels of Es-Skhul (Mount Carmel, Israel)

Population Replacement in Early Neolithic Britain

Quantitative micromorphological analyses of cut marks produced by ancient and modern handaxes

Reconstructing the Neanderthal brain using computational anatomy.

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Reply to 'Dating on its own cannot resolve hominin occupation patterns' and 'No reliable evidence for a very early Aurignacian in Southern Iberia'

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Reply to Cordaux and Stoneking.

scientific article published in June 2003

Reply to: ‘No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave’

scientific article published on 24 January 2022

Response to: Traynor et al. "assessing eye orbits as predictors of neandertal group size".

scientific article published on 12 October 2015

Tephra correlations and climatic events between the MIS6/5 transition and the beginning of MIS3 in Theopetra Cave, central Greece

scholarly article

Testing modern human out-of-Africa dispersal models and implications for modern human origins

scientific article published on 8 July 2015

The 'human revolution' in lowland tropical Southeast Asia: the antiquity and behavior of anatomically modern humans at Niah Cave (Sarawak, Borneo)

scientific article

The Human Revolution: Behavioural and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans

scientific article published in 1991

The Later Stone Age calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: morphology and chronology

scientific article published in 2011

The Long Walk to Humanity

scientific article published in March 2001

The Neanderthal face is not cold adapted

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The biting performance of Homo sapiens and Homo heidelbergensis.

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe

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The earliest record of human activity in northern Europe

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The evolutionary history of the human face

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The first four million years of human evolution

scientific article (publication date: 27 October 2010)

The functional significance of dental and mandibular reduction in Homo: A catarrhine perspective

scientific article published on 21 January 2019

The genetic origins of the Andaman Islanders

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The many mysteries of Homo naledi

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The morphological affinity of the Early Pleistocene footprints from Happisburgh, England, with other footprints of Pliocene, Pleistocene, and Holocene age

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens

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The status of Homo heidelbergensis (Schoetensack 1908)

scientific article published on May 1, 2012

The thermal history of human fossils and the likelihood of successful DNA amplification

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The tooth of a Neanderthal child from Stajnia Cave, Poland.

scientific article published on 8 February 2013

Tropical forager gastrophagy and its implications for extinct hominin diets

scientific article published in 2016

Two types of CO2− radicals threaten the fundamentals of ESR dating of tooth enamel

Two-stage mid-Brunhes climate transition and mid-Pleistocene human diversification

scholarly article

U-series and ESR analyses of bones and teeth relating to the human burials from Skhul

scientific article published in September 2005

U-series and radiocarbon analyses of human and faunal remains from Wajak, Indonesia

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Unconstrained cranial evolution in Neandertals and modern humans compared to common chimpanzees

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Using genetic evidence to evaluate four palaeoanthropological hypotheses for the timing of Neanderthal and modern human origins

scientific article published on 26 May 2010

Variation in enamel thickness within the genus Homo

scientific article published on 22 February 2012

Virtual reconstruction of the Neanderthal Amud 1 cranium

scientific article published on 7 August 2015

Volcanic ash layers illuminate the resilience of Neanderthals and early modern humans to natural hazards

scientific article (publication date: 21 August 2012)

Were neandertal and modern human cranial differences produced by natural selection or genetic drift?

scientific article published on 23 May 2007

When did modern humans leave Africa?

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Why we are not all multiregionalists now.

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Widespread Denisovan ancestry in Island Southeast Asia but no evidence of substantial super-archaic hominin admixture

scientific article published in 2021