paleoanthropologist
Americannoun
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The research team was led by University of Chicago paleoanthropologist Professor Zeresenay Alemseged.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 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
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
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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