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paleoanthropologist

American  
[pay-lee-oh-an-thruh-pahl-uhj-ist] / ˌpeɪ li oʊˌæn θrəˈpɑl ədʒ ɪst /

noun

  1. a scientist or expert in the field of paleoanthropology.


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The research team was led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026

Ronald Clarke, the paleoanthropologist who led the painstaking 20-year effort to excavate and study the skeleton, initially identified Little Foot as Australopithecus prometheus when it was formally introduced in 2017.

From Science Daily • Jan. 5, 2026

In 2009, a research team led by Arizona State University paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile-Selassie uncovered eight bones from the foot of an ancient human ancestor in 3.4-million-year-old sediments in the Afar Rift of Ethiopia.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2025

“This trackway is particularly beautifully preserved,” says paleoanthropologist Louise Leakey of Stony Brook University and director of the Koobi Fora Research Project.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 27, 2024

A. afarensis was “the only game in town” between 3 million and 4 million years ago, says Carol Ward, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Missouri.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

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