Sentences with phrase «leading palaeoanthropologists»

But David Begun of the University of Toronto, and one of the world's leading palaeoanthropologists, told The Independent neither tooth had a resemblance Fossils vary in size from one micrometer bacteria to dinosaurs and trees, many meters long and weighing many tons.

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In the early 1960s, a team led by palaeoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey found a deformed lower jaw, hand and partial skull in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.

Three - dimensional scans allow us to virtually make the skeleton «stand up»,» said Dr. Paul Tafforeau, a palaeoanthropologist and leading figure in the use of synchrotron X-rays for palaeontological applications.