Chris Stringer
@chrisbstringer.bsky.social
Palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum London.
Posts are my own, and when I repost or like, it does not signify I necessarily agree with all content https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/chris-stringer.html
Posts are my own, and when I repost or like, it does not signify I necessarily agree with all content https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/departments-and-staff/staff-directory/chris-stringer.html
Some additional thoughts on Yunxian, Homo longi, Denisovans and the origin of Homo sapiens
October 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Some additional thoughts on Yunxian, Homo longi, Denisovans and the origin of Homo sapiens
#FossilFriday Replicas of Yunxian 2 reconstruction (L) and Sangiran 17 Homo erectus from Java. Our research indicates that Yunxian is not an erectus, but is an early member of the group containing Homo longi, other Chinese fossils, and Denisovan material
September 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
#FossilFriday Replicas of Yunxian 2 reconstruction (L) and Sangiran 17 Homo erectus from Java. Our research indicates that Yunxian is not an erectus, but is an early member of the group containing Homo longi, other Chinese fossils, and Denisovan material
My explainer about the Yunxian 2 study
September 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
My explainer about the Yunxian 2 study
Look out for some news on Thursday evening!
September 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Look out for some news on Thursday evening!
London November 14th 2025
August 27, 2025 at 7:02 AM
London November 14th 2025
#FossilFriday One of the most complete and beautiful dentitions of Australopithecus africanus. Sts52a+b from Sterkfontein, South Africa
August 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
#FossilFriday One of the most complete and beautiful dentitions of Australopithecus africanus. Sts52a+b from Sterkfontein, South Africa
From the Shard to St Paul’s - great views from the One New Change terrace
July 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
From the Shard to St Paul’s - great views from the One New Change terrace
Louis Leakey with 'Zinjanthropus' skull+newspaper @NHMLondon in 1959. Found #OTD by Mary Leakey, ‘Zinj’ was assumed to represent the earliest toolmaker at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, until the discovery of Homo habilis. Pic by Anthony Sutcliffe.
July 17, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Louis Leakey with 'Zinjanthropus' skull+newspaper @NHMLondon in 1959. Found #OTD by Mary Leakey, ‘Zinj’ was assumed to represent the earliest toolmaker at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, until the discovery of Homo habilis. Pic by Anthony Sutcliffe.
Here's one from Wood and Smith (2022)
July 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Here's one from Wood and Smith (2022)
The remarkable diversity of ancient Apes: Harrison - Apes Among the Tangled Branches of Human Origins | Science (2010) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
July 15, 2025 at 11:52 AM
The remarkable diversity of ancient Apes: Harrison - Apes Among the Tangled Branches of Human Origins | Science (2010) www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
For #WorldChimpanzeeDay, here’s a picture of Twycross Zoo's hairless chimp Mongo (now sadly gone), showing his remarkable musculature..
July 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
For #WorldChimpanzeeDay, here’s a picture of Twycross Zoo's hairless chimp Mongo (now sadly gone), showing his remarkable musculature..
#FossilFriday Dragon Man (the Harbin cranium - Homo longi) on the cover of The Innovation (open access papers) in 2021
July 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
#FossilFriday Dragon Man (the Harbin cranium - Homo longi) on the cover of The Innovation (open access papers) in 2021
Apologies, don’t have the original source…
July 4, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Apologies, don’t have the original source…
#FossilFriday Kabwe 1 (Zambia, perhaps H. heidelbergensis) and Forbes’ Quarry (Gibraltar) (H. neanderthalensis) are both in our Human Evolution exhibition
July 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
#FossilFriday Kabwe 1 (Zambia, perhaps H. heidelbergensis) and Forbes’ Quarry (Gibraltar) (H. neanderthalensis) are both in our Human Evolution exhibition
Here are replicas of crania: Kabwe, La Ferrassie Neanderthal, Harbin and a recent human..
July 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here are replicas of crania: Kabwe, La Ferrassie Neanderthal, Harbin and a recent human..
#FossilFriday Replicas of the Dali (L) and Harbin crania from China, both probably Homo longi and Denisovan. It would be great to find similarly complete material from places like Sumatra, Borneo and Sulawesi.
June 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
#FossilFriday Replicas of the Dali (L) and Harbin crania from China, both probably Homo longi and Denisovan. It would be great to find similarly complete material from places like Sumatra, Borneo and Sulawesi.
Akhenaten was a heretical Egyptian pharaoh (c. 1353–36 BCE), who established a new cult dedicated to the Aton, the sun disc. He was the father of Tutankhamen…
June 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Akhenaten was a heretical Egyptian pharaoh (c. 1353–36 BCE), who established a new cult dedicated to the Aton, the sun disc. He was the father of Tutankhamen…
A golden hawk from the tomb of #Tutankhamun
June 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A golden hawk from the tomb of #Tutankhamun
My comments on a very early sapiens-like partial cranium from Apidima Cave, Greece (2019)
June 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
My comments on a very early sapiens-like partial cranium from Apidima Cave, Greece (2019)
My comments on 'The genome of the offspring of a Neandertal mother and a Denisovan father', Slon et al. Nature (2018)
June 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM
My comments on 'The genome of the offspring of a Neandertal mother and a Denisovan father', Slon et al. Nature (2018)