Sentences with phrase «when paleoanthropologist»

When paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged of the Max Planck Institute in Germany first saw what appeared to be tiny hominid remains encased in 3.3 - million - year - old sandstone in northern Ethiopia — just miles from where the famous Lucy skeleton was found 32 years earlier — he knew he had found something special.

rom the moment in 2013 when paleoanthropologist Lee Berger posted a plea on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn for «tiny and small, specialised cavers and spelunkers with excellent archaeological, palaeontological and excavation skills,» some experts began grumbling that the excavation of a mysterious hominin in the Rising Star Cave in South Africa was more of a media circus than a serious scientific expedition.

When paleoanthropologist Lee Berger unearthed a fossil near Johannesburg, South Africa, it seemed to be a jumble of parts: a braincase similar in size to that of an Australopithecus africanus, a Homo erectus pelvis, and the arms of a Miocene ape.

Not exact matches

When they try new reconstructions, paleoanthropologists often wind up damaging the fossils as they cut through the glue and varnish that held pieces together.

Venerable paleoanthropologist Tattersall opens his latest book recalling the time when, as a young researcher in the»70s, he traveled to the Comoros Islands to study lemurs and instead found himself in the midst of a coup.

And when fossils are particularly smashed up, paleoanthropologists simply don't dare reconstruct them.

Dr. Lewis wanted to be a paleoanthropologist working in East Africa since he was 13, when he read a book about the famous Lucy skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis.

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.»

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

Famed paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey thought tools made the man, and so when he uncovered hominid bones near stone tools in Tanzania in the 1960s, he labeled the putative toolmaker Homo habilis, the earliest member of the human genus.

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.

The unique adaptability of Homo sapiens is what allowed us to survive when so many other species died out, paleoanthropologist Rick Potts contends.

But William Kimbel, a paleoanthropologist and Lucy expert at Arizona State University, Tempe, says when comparing Lucy and the new species, «the distinctions in my view are pretty subtle.»

«This is exactly what the DNA tells us when one tries to make sense of the Denisova discoveries,» says paleoanthropologist Jean - Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

With each new discovery, paleoanthropologists have to rewrite the origins of man's ancestors, adding on new branches and tracking when species split.

That's when Varki turned to a long - time collaborator — paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey of TBI.