«Our results call attention to the strong discrepancies between molecular and paleontological estimates of the divergence time between Neanderthals and modern humans,» said Aida Gómez - Robles, lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral scientist at the Center for the Advanced Study of Hominid Paleobiology of The George Washington University. (sciencedaily.com)
Kevin Hatala of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, and a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology at George Washington University, recently analyzed one set of prints at Laetoli using photogrammetry. (discovermagazine.com)
As a graduate student in paleobiology at UC Davis, Farmer had developed an interest in studying the paleoecology and preservation potential of fossils, something that would lie largely dormant over the next decade while he tried his hand at other things. (sciencemag.org)