Robert Foley (Academic)
Lambert M. Surhone, Mariam T. Tennoe, Susan F. Henssonow
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Professor Robert Andrew Foley (born 1949) is Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies and Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge.
He was educated at Ardingly College and Peterhouse, Cambridge where he earned an MA and PhD in anthropology.
He is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.
Foley is the leading light of the Cambridge school in evolutionary biology which argues, within the context of the Out of Africa theory of human origins, for two waves of migrations by Homo sapiens.
The competing Oxford school, championed by Stephen Oppenheimer, holds that there was just one migration across the Bab-el-Mandeb strait at the end of the Red Sea.
The two schools also diverge on when they date the migrations.
