Quotes from Chris Stringer

So we have to recognize that species concepts are humanly produced categories which may or may not always work when compared with the reality of nature.

They were fortunate as I had a couple of unusual mutations in my mtDNA, which makes it very recognizable, but it was still somewhat shocking to find that my DNA had left a contaminating trail across the museums of Europe! As Alan Cooper is jokily fond of accusing paleoanthropologists, in terms of the contamination of fossils he has tried to study, "You are all very dirty people!

On average, human brains have shrunk some 10 percent in size over the last 20,000 years,