Sentences with word «palaeoanthropologist»

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.

Many palaeoanthropologists also call for better access to existing materials.

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.

Palaeoanthropologists often use chimps as «proxies» for our common ancestor, so Ardi's debut may mean that much of what we think we know about human evolution will have to be rethought.

Now palaeoanthropologist David Begun at the University of Toronto in Canada has found a set of fossil teeth in the town of Rudabánya, Hungary.

The message seems to be go out and find some more material and stop going round in circles arguing about the same few specimens, which will encourage any budding palaeoanthropologists.

One American palaeoanthropologist thinks the answer lies in the stay - at - home tendencies of our immediate ancestors who were beginning to exercise brain over brawn.

One of the most recent of these is represented by two teeth and a lower jawbone, dating to about 100,000 years ago, unearthed in 2007 by IVPP palaeoanthropologist Liu Wu and his colleagues4.

The investment comes at a time when palaeoanthropologists across the globe are starting to pay more attention to Asian fossils and how they relate to other early hominins — creatures that are more closely related to humans than to chimps.

The 31 128 hectare reserve is also the site of Eve's footprints — found by palaeoanthropologists on a rock in 1995, they are proof that a woman walked these dunes 117 000 years ago.

For many palaeoanthropologists, that's a step too far.

The earliest confirmed evidence of controlled fire use dates to several thousand years ago but some palaeoanthropologists argue control began as far back as 1 to 2 million years ago.

«South Africa is an unlikely place to look for innovations that led to humans dispersing into Eurasia,» says John Shea, a palaeoanthropologist at Stony Brook University in New York.

«This specimen is really important and exciting, as — assuming the dating is correct — it shows for the first time that modern humans existed in the Near East at the same time as Neanderthals,» says Katerina Harvati, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany.

«The question that is going to come up is which taxa gave rise to our genus, Homo,» says Yohannes Haille - Selassie, a palaeoanthropologist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Ohio, whose team reports its discovery in Nature.

«It's how I cut my teeth as a palaeoanthropologist — working with the mess that is Homo habilis,» says Lieberman.

«It looks Homo - ish to me, but I'd like to see their numbers,» agrees Daniel Lieberman, a palaeoanthropologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, referring to precise measurements of the jaw.

While he acknowledges that he's neither a geneticist nor a palaeoanthropologist, Suddendorf deftly argues for when and why uniquely human traits might have evolved.

Meanwhile, Francesco d'Errico, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Bordeaux in France, known for his work on early hominin engravings, tried to replicate the etch, down to its microstructure.

We hit the jackpot,» says Bence Viola, a palaeoanthropologist who co-led the study of the remains.

Goodbye,»» says Fred Spoor, a palaeoanthropologist at University College London.

The more precise dates for Neanderthal — human mating pose a challenge for scientists who have proposed that modern humans left Africa before 100,000 years ago and reached Asia more than 75,000 years ago, says Chris Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at London's Natural History Museum.

Jean - Jacques Hublin, a palaeoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, agrees that the chances of recovering DNA from the skull fragment are slim.

Its teeth are small, like those of other Homo species, and the parabolic shape of the jaw is a better match to Homo than to Australopithecus, says Brian Villmoare, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.

The most noticeable feature of the Busidima pelvis is its wide birth canal, says Scott Simpson, a palaeoanthropologist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, who was part of a team that uncovered the nearly complete bone.

He and Glenn Conroy, a palaeoanthropologist at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, wanted to improve the odds of success.

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.

«The big question is why they made it,» says Jean - Jacques Hublin, a palaeoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany who was not involved in the study, which is published online in Nature on May 25.

For decades, palaeoanthropologists have been debating whether Lucy's species, Australopithecus afarensis, was the lone hominin living in eastern Africa at the time.

But Neanderthals go against this trend, says Tim Weaver, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved in the study.

But Jean - Jacques Hublin, a palaeoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, thinks that later waves of humans replaced them.

Chris Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London who had argued that remains from Skhul and Qafzeh signified unsuccesful migrations, says that he is now swayed by the Daoxian teeth.

For a century, palaeoanthropologists have generally learned to make do with slim pickings — part of a face here, a jawbone fragment there.

Chris Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at London's Natural History Museum, says Osborne's team makes a good climatological case for the importance of the Saharan channels in human migrations.

The teeth are unquestionably those of H. sapiens, says María Martinón - Torres, a palaeoanthropologist at University College London who co-led the study with colleagues Wu Liu and Xie - jie Wu at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing.

However, Clive Finlayson, a palaeoanthropologist at the Gibraltar Museum, says the idea that there were just a handful of hominid migrations out of Africa is a vast oversimplification that ignores how other species expand their range over time.

«This is the tip of the iceberg,» says Chris Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London who was not involved in the find.

«Our new data reveal that Homo sapiens spread across the entire African continent around 300,000 years ago,» said coauthor Jean - Jacques Hublin, a palaeoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, in a press release.

Chris Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, who co-wrote an article to accompany the studies, said in Nature that the new finds «shift Morocco from a supposed backwater in the evolution of our species to a prominent position.»

Given ongoing uncertainty surrounding the human fossil record, palaeoanthropologists have come to rely on the results of genetic sequencing of samples from living populations to reconstruct the origins of modern humans in East Asia.

María Martinón - Torres, a palaeoanthropologist at University College London, is among those who proposed that some of the Chinese hominins were Denisovans.

Chris Stringer, a palaeoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, agrees.

It is the least understood episode in human evolution, says Russell Ciochon, a palaeoanthropologist at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.