Chris Stringer
Chris Stringer
Christopher Brian "Chris" Stringer FRS,, is a British anthropologist...
three
Neanderthals are three times as different from us as we all are from each other,
dna easier nuclear pick
There's about 1,000 times more mitochondrial DNA than nuclear DNA in our cells, so it's much easier to pick up,
discovery early existed far humans north
The discovery that early humans could have existed this far north this long ago was startling.
dealing dna gets human sample
DNA gets everywhere. So when we're dealing with a sample and you find it's got human DNA in it - is that DNA from the fossil, or is it actually DNA from the person who unearthed it?
roles consciousness imagine
Our role is to imagine products that don't exist and guide them to life.
fossils modern enough
There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans