Stephen oppenheimer biography books

This work, published infocuses on Oppenheimer's hypothesis: that approximately 85 thousand years ago, a group of modern humans migrated from East Africa across the Red Sea to South Asia in a single major exodus numbering no more than a few hundred individuals. This lone group of wanderers, he suggests, were the ancestors of all the peoples of the earth except sub-Saharan Africans, their descendants having since migrated all over the Eurasian continent, North Africa, the Pacific islands, and the New World, and radiated into a plurality of physical characteristics, languages, ethnicities and cultures as seen today.

In his book The Origins of the British revised inOppenheimer argued that neither Anglo-Saxons nor Celts had much impact on the genetics of the inhabitants of the British Islesand that British ancestry mainly traces back to the Palaeolithic Iberian people, now represented best by Basquesinstead. He also argued that the Scandinavian input has been underestimated.

He published an introduction to his book in Prospect magazine [ 4 ] and answered some of his critics in a further Prospect magazine article in June Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikiquote Wikidata item. British geneticist. Career [ edit ]. Books by Oppenheimer [ edit ].

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