Sentences with phrase «by paleoanthropologist»

Users will want to begin by clicking on the interactive documentary that explores four million years of human evolution narrated by paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson.

July 31, 2004 Added A look at Piltdown Man on the 50th anniversary of its exposure as a hoax, by paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer.

The examined teeth came from China and Thailand — among them the first record of Gigantopithecus, which was discovered by paleoanthropologist Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald in 1935 among a collection of fossils from a Chinese pharmacy.

In a second new paper, Berger's group — led by paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin — Madison — describes 131 newly discovered H. naledi fossils from a second underground cave, dubbed Lesedi Chamber, within the Rising Star cave system.

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

Members of a team led by paleoanthropologist Isaiah Nengo estimated the fossil's age by assessing radioactive forms of the element argon in surrounding rock, which decay at a known rate.

The partial jaw of new hominin Australopithecus deyiremeda (top) was found about 20 miles from the famous «Lucy» fossils by paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile - Selassie.

Not exact matches

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

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.

A lengthy investigation by Science reveals allegations of sexual misconduct against noted paleoanthropologist Brian Richmond, as well as the field's response.

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.

Details of the tumor confirmation, announced by an international research team led by Penn Museum Associate Curator and Paleoanthropologist Janet Monge, is available in a research paper, «Fibrous dysplasia in a 120,000 + year old Neandertal from Krapina, Croatia,» in the online scientific journal PLOS ONE.

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».

Although the find was remarkable, it wasn't until this year that a team led by French paleoanthropologist Michel Brunet used CT scans to create a virtual model of the skull, revealing precise measurements of the size of the brain cavity and information about the angle at which the spinal cord exits the brain.

«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.

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.»

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.

Paleoanthropologist William Kimbel, anthropologist Katie Hinde, and paleoecologist Kaye Reed, all at ASU, began preparing the statement weeks ago, after learning of an impending Science story on alleged sexual misconduct by Brian Richmond, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural HistorPaleoanthropologist William Kimbel, anthropologist Katie Hinde, and paleoecologist Kaye Reed, all at ASU, began preparing the statement weeks ago, after learning of an impending Science story on alleged sexual misconduct by Brian Richmond, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural Historpaleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

«I think for the first time, by virtue of the Dmanisi hominins, we have a solid hypothesis for the origin of H. erectus,» says Rick Potts, a paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

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.

The first bones were found by Matthew Berger, the young son of paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, who joined his father at press events touting the find.

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.

The research was designed and headed by Japanese paleoanthropologist Gen Suwa (the University of Tokyo) and Ethiopian paleoanthropologists Yonas Beyene and Berhane Asfaw.

Eric Delson, a paleoanthropologist at Lehman College in New York, says the hypothesis is more an exercise in comparative anatomy than a theory supported by data.

In this week's issue of Nature, a team led by Yohannes Haile - Selassie, a paleoanthropologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio, reports uncovering parts of two upper jaws and two lower jaws, plus some associated teeth, from a new possible species in the Afar region of Ethiopia, just 35 kilometers north of where Lucy was found.

Paleoanthropologists Jean - Jacques Hublin and Luke Premo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, tested this hypothesis by simulating how mating preferences alter gene flow between individuals in different groups.

An international team of paleoanthropologists, led by Professor Madelaine Böhme of the University of Tübingen, Germany, has analyzed 7.2 million - year - old...

As a paleoanthropologist, Berger studies fossils and cultural clues left behind by ancient humans and their relatives.

Paleoanthropologists have disagreed about how they relate to other human groups, some positing they were ancestors of both modern humans and Neanderthals, others that they were a nonancestral species replaced by the Neanderthals, who spread across Europe.