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
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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