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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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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

The research team was led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged.

From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 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

“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

And no tools have been found at Laetoli or Hadar, where most of the hundreds of A. afarensis fossils have been found, says paleoanthropologist Terry Harrison of New York University.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 3, 2024

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