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Stephen Oppenheimer



Stephen Oppenheimer (b. 1947) is a British paediatrician, geneticist, and writer. He is a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford and an honorary fellow of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. In addition to his work in medicine and tropical diseases, he has published popular works in the fields of genetics and human prehistory. This latter work has been the subject of a number of television and film projects.

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Out of Eden

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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.”
Stephen Oppenheimer, 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”
Stephen Oppenheimer, 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.”
Stephen Oppenheimer, Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World



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