Mark Stoneking, Date of Birth

Mark Stoneking

geneticist

Date of Birth: 01-Aug-1956

Profession: paleontologist, anthropologist, paleoanthropologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Leo

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.