Mark Stoneking
Mark Stoneking (born 1 August 1956) is a
geneticist currently working as the Group Leader of the
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, of
Max Planck Gesellschaft at
Leipzig, and
Honorary Professor of Biological Anthropology,
University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. He works in the field of
human evolution, especially the genetic evolution, origin and dispersal of
modern humans. He, along with his doctoral advisor
Allan Wilson and a fellow researcher
Rebecca L. Cann, contributed to the
"Out of Africa" theory in 1987 by introducing the concept of
Mitochondrial Eve, a
hypothetical common mother of all living humans based on
mitochondrial DNA.
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