Mark Stoneking

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Mark Stoneking (born August 1, 1956 ) is an American geneticist . He is best known for a publication on Mitochondrial Eva in 1987 with Allan Wilson and Rebecca L. Cann .

Mark Stoneking studied from 1974 at the University of Oregon with a bachelor's degree in anthropology in 1977 and at Pennsylvania State University with a master's degree in genetics in 1979. He continued his studies at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and from 1981 at the University of California, Berkeley (with Allan Wilson) and received his PhD in genetics in 1986. In 1989 he was at the Human Genome Center of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and in 1989/90 at the Cetus Corporation in Emeryville , California in the human genetics department. In 1990 he became Assistant Professor , 1994 Associate Professor and 1998 Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. Since 1999 he has been group leader (Human Population History) at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and honorary professor at the University of Leipzig.

In 2016 he was visiting professor at the laboratories of the CNRS for biometrics and evolutionary biology in Lyon and held the Eugène Dubois chair at the University of Maastricht.

He uses genetic methods to research human population history (migration movements, relationships, etc.). In 1991, together with Allan Wilson and others, he supported the thesis of the African origin of Homo sapiens, which they put forward in the 1980s, through detailed studies of African populations. From the analysis of the DNA of lice, he concluded that humans began to wear clothes around 72,000 years ago (with an uncertainty of plus / minus 42,000 years) (the body louse splits off from the head louse).

He sees cultural development as an essential driving force in the (genetic) evolution of humans. Stoneking found that baldness in Europeans was related to the androgen receptor .

In 1990 he received the John Belling Prize in Genetics from the University of Berkeley. In 2000 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 1995 he became a Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science . In 2020 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences .

Stoneking did field studies in Indonesia (1988), Namibia, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, Botswana and Zambia. He also dealt with forensic DNA analysis and received an award from the FBI in 1998 (from 1993 he was in a corresponding working group of the FBI).

From 2008 to 2013 he was senior editor of the Annals of Human Genetics and from 1990 to 1993 he was co-editor of the Journal of Human Evolution. For example, he examined the skeletal remains of Jesse James for authenticity by comparing them with the DNA of offspring with a positive result. He was also involved in posthumous DNA analysis refuting Anna Anderson's claims to have been the daughter of Anastasia of the last Russian tsar.

Fonts

  • with Rebecca L. Cann , Allan Wilson: Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution, Nature, Volume 325, 1987, pp. 31-36
  • with Cann: African origin of human mitochondrial DNA. In: P. Mellars, C. Stringer (Eds.), The Human Revolution: Behavioral and Biological Perspectives on the Origins of Modern Humans, Edinburgh University Press, 1989, pp. 17-30
  • An Introduction to Molecular Anthropology, Wiley-Blackwell 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cann, Stoneking, Wilson: Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution, Nature, Volume 325, 1987, pp. 31-36. PMID 3025745
  2. ↑ Vigilant L, Stoneking M, Harpending H, Hawkes K, Wilson AC, African populations and the evolution of human mitochondrial DNA, Science, Volume 253, 1991, pp. 1503-1507. PMID 1840702
  3. ↑ R. Kittler, M. Kayser, M. Stoneking, Molecular evolution of Pediculus humanus and the origin of clothing, Current Biology, Volume 13, 2003, pp. 1414-1417. PMID 12932325
  4. ↑ AM Hillmer, J. Freudenberg, S. Myles, S. Herms, K. Tang, DA Hughes, FF Brockschmidt, Y. Ruan, M. Stoneking, MM Nöthen: Recent positive selection of a human androgen receptor / ectodysplasin A2 receptor haplotype and its relationship to male pattern baldness. In: Human genetics. Volume 126, number 2, August 2009, pp. 255-264, doi : 10.1007 / s00439-009-0668-z , PMID 19373488 , PMC 3774421 (free full text).
  5. ↑ Stone, Starrs, Stoneking, Mitochondrial DNA analysis of the presumptive remains of Jesse James, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Volume 46, 2001, pp. 173-176.
  6. ↑ Gill P, Kimpton C, Aliston-Greiner R, Sullivan K, Stoneking M, et al. Establishing the identity of Anna Anderson Manahan. Nature Genetics, Volume 9, 1995, 218, PMID 7704032
personal data
SURNAME Stoneking, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American geneticist
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1956