Stephen Oppenheimer

Stephen Oppenheimer (* 1947 ) is a British doctor, a member of Green College at Oxford and an honorary professor at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine . More recently he has published a number of books on early human history.

From 1972 Oppenheimer worked as a clinical pediatrician in Malaysia , Nepal and Papua New Guinea . Since 1979 he has moved into research and teaching at institutions such as the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine , Oxford University , a research center in Kilifi, Kenya and the University Sains Malaysia . From 1990 to 1994 he was a Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Hong Kong .

In 1996 he returned to England and began a second career as a researcher and author of popular scientific writings on early human history. In his books he synthesizes human genetics , archeology , anthropology , linguistics and folklore .

Books

• The Origins of the British - A Genetic Detective Story . 2006, Constable and Robinson. ISBN 1-84529-158-1 .
• Out of Eden . 2004, Constable and Robinson ISBN 1-84119-894-3 .
• Eden in the East . 1999, Phoenix (Orion) ISBN 0-7538-0679-7

Web links

• "Journey of Mankind"
• Review of Oppenheimer's Eden in the East
• "Look who was talking", Article by Stephen Oppenheimer, The Guardian, August 7, 2003
• "Fast trains, slow boats, and the ancestry of the Polynesian islanders" , link to an article by Stephen Oppenheimer and Martin Richards, Science Progress , September 22, 2001
• Discovery Program Q&A with Stephen Oppenheimer on the "Real Eve"
• "Myths of British ancestry," an article by Stephen Oppenheimer, Prospect Magazine , October 2006
• Curriculum vitae