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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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Marshaling an encyclopedic body of evolutionary and anthropological evidence, Mr. Lieberman, a paleoanthropologist at Harvard University, aims to dispel the monolithic thinking that dominates our approach to diet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

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 ● Dec. 16, 2025

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

“More people have come to look and analyze Lucy’s skeleton than any other fossil in the world,” says IHO paleoanthropologist Kaye Reed.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024

Fifty years after her discovery, “Lucy is an icon,” says Alemseged, now a paleoanthropologist at the University of Chicago.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024

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