Chris Stringer

Why glaciers are threatening to wipe out more mountain villages Switzerland spends almost $500m a year on protective structures. Is it worth it - or, as some suggest, should people move away from the mountain villages at risk?

Melting glaciers threaten to wipe out European villages - is the steep cost to protect them worth it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

YouTube video by The Dissenter #270 Christopher Stringer: The Past and Future of Human Evolution

What are the known unknowns of #humanevolution? Learn about it in my interview with Chris Stringer
youtu.be/GlvbKXrGo34

Radiation with reproductive isolation in the near-absence of phylogenetic signal Phenotypic diversification and reproductive isolation may unfold in the near-absence of phylogenetic signal.

Radiation with reproductive isolation in the near-absence of phylogenetic signal | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Josh Fisher, Consciousness as pre-linguistic internalized listener that filters 'meaning space' non-destructively for social familiarity-alignment markers to dramatically accelerate language and cultu... This article proposes a novel, unified, empirically informed, theoretical outline of the purpose and function of human consciousness in both children and prehistorical, pre-linguistic humans. It is ar...

Consciousness as pre-linguistic internalized listener
that filters 'meaning space' non-destructively for social
familiarity-alignment markers to dramatically
accelerate language and cultural learning philpapers.org/rec/FISCAP-12

Unlocking maps of Aboriginal ‘sky country’ The emerging field of Cultural Astronomy is unravelling how Indigenous understandings of the night sky is linked to navigating "songlines".

Unlocking maps of Aboriginal ‘sky country’ cosmosmagazine.com/space/astron...

Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave Seven ochre artifacts from Blombos Cave show evidence of lithic retouching and pressure flaking, revealing specialized MSA tools.

Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The genomic history of Iberian horses since the last Ice Age - Nature Communications Horses have lived in Iberia since the Ice Age. Using ancient genomes to study their history, Lira Garrido et al. reveal a local wild lineage lasting until Late Iron Age, and highlight the far-rea...

The genomic history of Iberian horses since the last Ice Age www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Book review Ice Age art www.redbrick.me/book-review-...

Book review Ice Age art www.redbrick.me/book-review-...

The genomic history of Iberian horses since the last Ice Age - Nature Communications Horses have lived in Iberia since the Ice Age. Using ancient genomes to study their history, Lira Garrido et al. reveal a local wild lineage lasting until Late Iron Age, and highlight the far-rea...

The genomic history of Iberian horses since the last Ice Age www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave Seven ochre artifacts from Blombos Cave show evidence of lithic retouching and pressure flaking, revealing specialized MSA tools.

Unveiling the multifunctional use of ochre in the Middle Stone Age: Specialized ochre retouchers from Blombos Cave | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Unlocking maps of Aboriginal ‘sky country’ The emerging field of Cultural Astronomy is unravelling how Indigenous understandings of the night sky is linked to navigating "songlines".

Unlocking maps of Aboriginal ‘sky country’ cosmosmagazine.com/space/astron...

Josh Fisher, Consciousness as pre-linguistic internalized listener that filters 'meaning space' non-destructively for social familiarity-alignment markers to dramatically accelerate language and cultu... This article proposes a novel, unified, empirically informed, theoretical outline of the purpose and function of human consciousness in both children and prehistorical, pre-linguistic humans. It is ar...

Consciousness as pre-linguistic internalized listener
that filters 'meaning space' non-destructively for social
familiarity-alignment markers to dramatically
accelerate language and cultural learning philpapers.org/rec/FISCAP-12

Radiation with reproductive isolation in the near-absence of phylogenetic signal Phenotypic diversification and reproductive isolation may unfold in the near-absence of phylogenetic signal.

Radiation with reproductive isolation in the near-absence of phylogenetic signal | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

YouTube video by The Dissenter #270 Christopher Stringer: The Past and Future of Human Evolution

What are the known unknowns of #humanevolution? Learn about it in my interview with Chris Stringer
youtu.be/GlvbKXrGo34

Our ape ancestors’ taste for fermenting fruit may have paved a boozy evolutionary path
Eating fallen fruit—or “scrumping”—plays a bigger part in many apes’ diets than scientists realized www.science.org/content/arti...

Paleolithic hominin occupations and Quaternary geomorphological evolution in the NE Ararat Depression (Armenia) The Ararat Depression, at the crossroads of Africa and Eurasia, spans Armenia, Turkey and Iran, providing a unique natural laboratory for studying lan…

Paleolithic hominin occupations and Quaternary geomorphological evolution in the NE Ararat Depression (Armenia) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Darwinist feminism: Dismantling the myth of female sexual passivity The arrival of researchers like Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and Amy Parish transformed not only the study of primates, but also our understanding of evolution, sexuality and gender roles in general

english.elpais.com/science-tech...

A Framework for Archaeological Involvement with Human Genetic Data for European Prehistory A concern with ethics and commitments to ethical conduct and standards has increasingly been raised within archaeology, recently also concerning aDNA data. We suggest that codes, whether for working w...

A Framework for Archaeological
Involvement with Human Genetic Data for European Prehistory www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Middle Palaeolithic Human occupations, cultural behaviours and demographic dynamics during MIS 5a to late 3 in the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter, Kermanshah, West-Central Zagros Mountains Despite many years of research into the Middle Palaeolithic in the Zagros Mountains, numerous aspects of this period have not yet been sufficiently in…

Middle Palaeolithic Human occupations, cultural behaviours and demogra... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Why glaciers are threatening to wipe out more mountain villages Switzerland spends almost $500m a year on protective structures. Is it worth it - or, as some suggest, should people move away from the mountain villages at risk?

Melting glaciers threaten to wipe out European villages - is the steep cost to protect them worth it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Middle Palaeolithic Human occupations, cultural behaviours and demographic dynamics during MIS 5a to late 3 in the Bawa Yawan Rockshelter, Kermanshah, West-Central Zagros Mountains Despite many years of research into the Middle Palaeolithic in the Zagros Mountains, numerous aspects of this period have not yet been sufficiently in…

Middle Palaeolithic Human occupations, cultural behaviours and demogra... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A Framework for Archaeological Involvement with Human Genetic Data for European Prehistory A concern with ethics and commitments to ethical conduct and standards has increasingly been raised within archaeology, recently also concerning aDNA data. We suggest that codes, whether for working w...

A Framework for Archaeological
Involvement with Human Genetic Data for European Prehistory www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Darwinist feminism: Dismantling the myth of female sexual passivity The arrival of researchers like Sarah Blaffer Hrdy and Amy Parish transformed not only the study of primates, but also our understanding of evolution, sexuality and gender roles in general

english.elpais.com/science-tech...

Paleolithic hominin occupations and Quaternary geomorphological evolution in the NE Ararat Depression (Armenia) The Ararat Depression, at the crossroads of Africa and Eurasia, spans Armenia, Turkey and Iran, providing a unique natural laboratory for studying lan…

Paleolithic hominin occupations and Quaternary geomorphological evolution in the NE Ararat Depression (Armenia) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our ape ancestors’ taste for fermenting fruit may have paved a boozy evolutionary path
Eating fallen fruit—or “scrumping”—plays a bigger part in many apes’ diets than scientists realized www.science.org/content/arti...

#HomoLongi, also known as Dragon Man,
is an extinct archaic human species - with a nearly complete skull found near Harbin, China, dating back to at least 146,000 years ago.

The Ancients - Human Evolution:
Dragon Man 🏺🧪
podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

Photo of magazine cover. The image is a digital art picture of a woman's face, with cutaway like a house inside her mind referring to headline story "Sharpen Your Memory".

Photo of first pages in story called "The Other Humans". Image is people in silhouette walking along a ridge. They have spears.

🏺🧪🦣
New piece I wrote for BBC Science Focus is out, on the increasingly complex but ever more interesting story of early Homo sapiens' origins & dispersal, and the other kinds of humans we encountered.

#FossilFriday One of the most complete and beautiful dentitions of Australopithecus africanus. Sts52a+b from Sterkfontein, South Africa

(a) Left: Immature Australopithecus MH 1 which currently comprises 23.8% of the Malapa assemblage. (b) Right: Adult Australopithecus MH 2 represents 45.8%. Note that not all body elements are pictured, e.g. additional MH 1 elements are currently under preparation and MH 2 lumbar vertebrae have been more recently recovered from ex situ blocks (e.g. Williams et al. Citation2021). Lee R. Berger. Image by Peter Schmid, slightly modified with MH 1 right tibia removed as it is no longer associated (after Bolter et al. Citation2025).

Catalogue of immature hominin fossils from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa 🏺🧪
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Fossil remains of South African hominins curated at the Wits University Johannesburg, the largest repository of human evolution assemblages in southern Africa.