Stephen Oppenheimer
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Stephen Oppenheimer is a well-known expert in the field of synthesizing DNA studies with archaeological, anthropological, linguistic and other field studies. He is a member of Green College, Oxford, and has authored the books Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia and The Real Eve: Modern Man's Journey Out of Africa. The latter focuses on his hypothesis that modern humans emerged from East Africa in a single major exodus, numbering no more than a few hundred individuals. This lone group of wanderers is ancestral to all non-Africans and most North Africans, their descendants having since radiated into a plurality of physical characteristics, languages, ethnicities and cultures today.
He has recently argued that neither Anglo-Saxons nor Celts had much impact on the genetics of the inhabitants of the British Isles, and that British ancestry can be traced back to the Basques instead.[1]
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[edit] Trivia
- In his book The Real Eve, Oppenheimer hypothesizes that Eurasians descend from a South Asian origin, with the founding population of Caucasoids (Western Eurasians) originating in Northwest India and the founding population of Mongoloids (Eastern Eurasians) originating in Northeast India/Nepal. Caucasoids spread West into Central Asia, West Asia, North Africa and Europe, while Mongoloids spread East into Siberia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Oceania, the Americas and Greenland.
[edit] Works
- The Origins of the British - A Genetic Detective Story. Constable and Robinson
- Out of Eden, 2004, Constable and Robinson ISBN 1-84119-894-3
- The Real Eve, Carroll & Graf; (September 9, 2004) ISBN 0-7867-1334-8
- Eden in the East, 1999, Phoenix (Orion) ISBN 0-7538-0679-7
[edit] References
- ^ Stephen Oppenheimer, Myths of British ancestry, Prospect, October 2006, accessed 21 September 2006.
[edit] See also
- James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, earliest philosopher to formulate the one source theory
- Jared Diamond
- Robert A. Foley
- Toomas Kivisild
- Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza
- Chris Stringer
- Bryan Sykes