Stephen Oppenheimer
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Out of Eden
13 editions
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2003
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The Origins of the British: A Genetic Detective Story
6 editions
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2006
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Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia
8 editions
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1998
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A Bone To Pick: The Adventures of Mr.Pettibone Among Others
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Third Strike and Other Fascinations
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Nunc Dimittis
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Stroke Medicine
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4 editions
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2006
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“Since bears and coastal humans have an omnivorous diet that overlaps considerably, the bear story may be pointing us to the route that could have been taken by humans 12,000–15,000 years ago.”
― Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World
― Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World
“In Africa by 1.2 million years ago the brains of Homo rhodesiense had grown to within 6 per cent of the volume of modern humans. Around 300,000 years ago, the climate-driven brain-growth machine reached a plateau of size 11 per cent above that of today’s people. Since then our brains and bodies have got smaller. The”
― Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World
― Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World
“Perhaps, as with cars, there was a law of diminishing evolutionary return, and it was no longer economical to build models with ever larger engines.”
― Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World
― Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World
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