Sentences with phrase «leading paleoanthropologists»
Wong also solicited remarks from leading paleoanthropologists and continued her own reporting.
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But A. deyiremeda and its neighbors do indicate that hominins with ape - size brains had developed successful adaptations to different environments, says the study's lead author Yohannes Haile - Selassie, a paleoanthropologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
It lacks an arch and has an opposable, or grasping, big toe, like living apes, says Yohannes Haile - Selassie, a paleoanthropologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio and the lead author of the new study, which appears online today in Nature.
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.
Kivell, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Kent and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, lead author Matthew Skinner, and their colleagues came to that conclusion after analyzing bones from Australopithecus hands from the Pliocene Epoch, approximately 5.3 - 2.6 million years ago.
Lee Berger, the American paleoanthropologist, who led the team that made the discovery, told the BBC.
An international team of paleoanthropologists, led by Professor Madelaine Böhme of the University of Tübingen, Germany, has analyzed 7.2 million - year - old...