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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Example Sentences

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

Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi presents in the British style, narrating in person as she travels the world, anywhere traces of our prehistoric ancestors may be found, exploring caves, pressing through jungles, scampering up mountains, sailing on the Nile, crossing deserts and snowy wastes — often seen from far above with apparently no one else around for miles.

From Los Angeles Times

The long footpath reveals a lot about the gait of its maker, says Jeremy DeSilva, a paleoanthropologist at Dartmouth University who thinks it looks like the footwork of Paranthropus.

From Science Magazine

“It’s very exciting—we are getting two very clear, distinctive gait patterns from different species of hominins in a matter of hours or even minutes,” says Charles Musiba, a paleoanthropologist at Duke University who was not part of the study.

From Science Magazine

These ancient footprints trample the old view, proposed in the 1950s by the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, that no two hominin species overlapped in time and space, says William Harcourt-Smith, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History who wrote a commentary accompanying the new paper.

From Science Magazine