paleoanthropologist
Americannoun
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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
“Fate played a miserable trick—it gave us the best fossil early on,” says paleoanthropologist Bernard Wood of George Washington University.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 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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