Sentences with phrase «university paleoanthropologist»

Using a statistics - based technique to compare their shape and size with the skulls of many other hominins, Harvard University paleoanthropologist Philip Rightmire found that only one of the Dmanisi skulls — at 730 cubic centimeters — fits «comfortably within the confines of H. erectus.»

The innkeeper was delighted — and so were University of Utah biologist Dennis Bramble and Harvard University paleoanthropologist Daniel Lieberman.

«I was really quite blown away when the paper was published in Nature,» says George Washington University paleoanthropologist Alison Brooks.

«If you're going to walk into someone else's territory, you want to signal that you're a friend, not a foe,» says George Washington University paleoanthropologist Alison Brooks.

Not exact matches

«This is a real lineage, and we have to work out what the hell it looks like,» says paleoanthropologist Bernard Wood of George Washington University in Washington.

Crocodile bites damage animal bones in virtually the same ways that stone tools do, say paleoanthropologist Yonatan Sahle of the University of Tübingen in Germany and his colleagues.

But Stanley Ambrose, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, dismisses Duarte's idea.

It also shows that these ancient «populations moved around a lot and intermixed,» says paleoanthropologist Erik Trinkaus of Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri, who is not a co-author.

In September, University of the Witwatersrand paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team described the fossils — discovered by spelunkers in 2013 — in the journal eLife.

Others, like William Jungers, a paleoanthropologist at Stony Brook University, say there isn't enough evidence to confirm that H. naledi is necessarily a new species.

To create a foot skeleton for Lucy, I essentially executed a 3 - D version of a graphic reconstruction done earlier by Berkeley paleoanthropologist Tim White and the University of Tokyo's Gen Suwa, scaled to Lucy's size using her preserved foot bones.

«You need to point out to them that this is inappropriate,» said Fred Smith, a paleoanthropologist at Illinois State University in Normal.

Now, however, a trio of paleoanthropologists — Yonatan Sahle and Sireen El Zaatari of the University of Tübingen in Germany and Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley — have shown that crocodile teeth can also leave V - shaped cuts in mammal bones that are indistinguishable from stone - tool cuts.

«I think basically everyone in zooarchaeology knows there's a problem with cutmarks,» says David Braun, a paleoanthropologist at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., who wasn't involved in the study.

Manuel Domínguez - Rodrigo, a paleoanthropologist at the Complutense University of Madrid, says that in his own analysis of the Dikika bones, he found micro-abrasions along the bones» surface and intersecting striations within grooves, textures that suggest neither crocodile bites nor stone - tool cuts, but instead damage by animal trampling.

Curtis Marean, a paleoanthropologist at Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins in Tempe, and a co-author on the 2010 paper, and his graduate student Jacob Harris, say in an email to Science that «a reassignment of agency based on nothing more than another look by the experts is not appropriate».

None of us expected that,» says paleoanthropologist Michael Westaway of Griffith University, Nathan, in Australia, a co-author on the Willerslev paper.

Roberts co-led the study with archaeologist colleague Thomas Sutikna (who also helped coordinate the 2003 dig), and Matthew Tocheri, a paleoanthropologist at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada.

Terry Harrison, a paleoanthropologist at New York University, questioned in Nature whether Ardi was even a member of the human lineage or just an ape «among the tangled branches» of a much larger bush.

«Sediba is too late to sit on the lineage,» says paleoanthropologist Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley.

Despite the age and unprecedented completeness of the new ape skull, no reported tooth or skull features clearly place N. alesi close to the origins of living apes and humans, says paleoanthropologist David Begun of the University of Toronto.

«Sex happens,» says Erik Trinkaus, a paleoanthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis.

«More experimental work on bone damage caused by big, hungry crocs is also critical,» says coauthor Tim White, a paleoanthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Charles Hildebolt, a paleoanthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, has also been working on the Flores material and has obtained his own CT scans.

Paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, who was present when Henneberg made his case, notes on his blog that Brown's CT scan «has rather poor resolution (typical of medical CT scans), and cuts through the lingual cusps of the lower M1, not the buccal (cheek) cusps which appear to have been most affected by the irregularity.»

«It confirms this idea that our lineage, Homo, is a response to climate change,» says Brian Villmoare, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

«Dmanisi was a good place to die,» says Martha Tappen, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Minnesota and part of the Dmanisi team since 2001.

Paleoanthropologist Peter Brown of the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, who led the initial analysis of LB1, says his own photograph of the occlusal (chewing) surface «shows there is no filling.

Sahle's group expanded on research previously conducted by paleoanthropologist Jackson Njau of Indiana University Bloomington.

Studies of DNA from living Africans, and from the 2,000 - year - old African boy, so far indicate that at least several branches of Homo — some not yet identified by fossils — existed in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago, says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin — Madison, a member of the H. naledi team who refrains from classifying Jebel Irhoud individuals as H. sapiens.

«Ardi seems to have been able to bridge both worlds,» says paleoanthropologist Carol Ward of the University of Missouri in Columbia, who was not part of the team.

University of Toronto paleoanthropologist David Begun is one of the skeptics.

But its discoverer, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, says that the known A. sediba skeletons might simply be late examples of the species.

Owen Lovejoy, a paleoanthropologist at Kent State University, has spent his career studying the fossils of early hominids.

«If you put a hundred strange chimpanzees in a room, there would be bloodshed,» says Steven Churchill, a paleoanthropologist at Duke University.

However, the hominin bones have been stored in a safe in the armory and so far show no visible damage, says paleoanthropologist Lorenzo Rook of the University of Florence in Italy, who delivered the letter to the Italian ministry last Friday.

The lead researcher, paleoanthropologist Peter Brown of the University of New England in Australia, says his jaw dropped when he realized what he was looking at.

That debate may continue, but the one about Ata's extraterrestrial origins should definitely end, says William Jungers, a paleoanthropologist and anatomist at the State University of New York in Stony Brook's School of Medicine.

There's «no evidence» that these or other known species «persisted that late» in mainland Asia, says paleoanthropologist Russell Ciochon of the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

It was «a lineage that existed for 1 million years or more and we missed it,» says co-author John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

After originating in Africa possibly around 300,000 years ago and inhabiting areas close to the Middle East (SN: 7/8/17, p. 6), H. sapiens likely first reached the Middle East more than 200,000 years ago, proposes an international team of paleoanthropologists led by Quam, Israel Hershkovitz of Tel Aviv University and Gerhard Weber of the University of Vienna.

In an analysis of the remarkably complete hands, paleoanthropologist Tracy Kivell of the University of Kent in the United Kingdom found that bones in the wrist were shaped like those in modern humans, suggesting that the palm at the base of the thumb was quite stiff.

Adds paleoanthropologist David Begun of the University of Toronto in Canada: «It will allow us to begin to identify genetic changes specific to humans since our divergence from chimps.»

To look at the teeth and jaws of the hominins at Dmanisi is to see a mouthful of pain, says Ann Margvelashvili, a postdoc in the lab of paleoanthropologist Marcia Ponce de León at the University of Zurich in Switzerland and the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi.

«I have a big question mark about the dates,» says paleoanthropologist Randall White of New York University, co-author of a paper published earlier this year in the Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française that challenged the reliability of this dating method.

Perhaps venturing into new territory allowed the hominins to hunt prey that would not have known to fear and flee humans, suggests paleoanthropologist Robin Dennell of the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

Francis Thackeray, a paleoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, says he «strongly suspects» Teilhard de Chardin was in on the hoax.

A date would also illuminate whether the fossils represent an ancient population or an isolated relic that persisted until fairly recently, says paleoanthropologist Bernard Wood of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

But where it really fit in our family tree «hinged on the date,» says paleoanthropologist William Kimbel of Arizona State University in Tempe.

In another study, paleoanthropologist William Jungers of Stony Brook University in New York studied the foot of the hobbit and found it, true to its namesake, strikingly large relative to the size of the body, with very short big toes.