paleoanthropologist
Americannoun
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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
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
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
Then a young American paleoanthropologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, he had joined an expedition at Hadar organized by late French geologist Maurice Taieb.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
In 2020, paleoanthropologist Charles Musiba of the University of Colorado Denver and his colleagues reanalyzed famous tracks discovered in 1976 at Laetoli.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 3, 2024
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