paleoanthropologist

[pay-lee-oh-an-thruh-pahl-uhj-ist]

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

“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

Her team buried the footprints to protect them, and in 2022 invited Kevin Hatala, paleoanthropologist at Chatham University, and Neil Roach of Harvard University to have a look.

From Science Magazine