ICTP Colloquium: Chris Stringer

ICTP is pleased to welcome Chris Stringer for a Colloquium on Wednesday, September 8 at 16:00 CET. A permanent staff member and Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum, Stringer will be giving a lecture entitled "Some Current Issues in the Later Stages of Human Evolution."

Stringer collaborates reconstruct the evolution of modern humans, working with geneticists and archeologists to understand how humans evolved and how other early human species fit into the story. As well as many scientific papers, he has written a number of books, most recently Britain: one million years of the human story (2014, with Rob Dinnis) and Our Human Story (2018, with Louise Humphrey).

Register for the online colloquium here.

Abstract: Many of the supposed certainties of later Pleistocene human evolution have been swept away in the last decade. In this talk I will look at some of the outstanding issues including the nature and timing of the last common ancestor of modern humans and Neanderthals, the evolution and relationships of Neanderthals, Denisovans and Homo sapiens, and why we are the only humans left on Earth. Read more.