The evolution of modern humans
By Chris Stringer
Neanderthals hunting deer in Britain about 400,000 years ago
The name Chris Stringer is inextricably linked with the 'Out of Africa' theory, which argues that modern humans first evolved in Africa and then migrated out all over the world. According to this model, Homo sapiens gradually replaced the indigenous pre-human species of other continents, including the Neanderthals in Europe. In this feature, based on the Millennium Distinguished Lecture delivered at the American Anthropological Association in 2000, Stringer, a merit researcher at the Natural History Museum, expounds and elucidates his version of this highly influential and widely accepted theory of how it was that we modern humans came about.
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