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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

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

An international research team led by Dr. Karen Baab, a paleoanthropologist at the College of Graduate Studies, Glendale Campus of Midwestern University in Arizona, created a digital reconstruction of the face of early Homo erectus.

From Science Daily

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