paleoanthropologist
Americannoun
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To reach this conclusion, Rowan and colleagues analyzed a rare set of high quality seismic data collected with industry partners and in collaboration with the Turkana Basin Institute, founded by the late paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey.
From Science Daily • Apr. 25, 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
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
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 • Nov. 27, 2024
In 1994, Kenyan paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey and her team found more than 80 fossils of teeth, jaws, a partial arm, and shinbone at two sites near Lake Turkana in Kenya.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024
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