Sentences with word «paleoanthropologist»

«Our research, demonstrating that a single developmental rule can explain the countless variation we observe across mammals, also means we must be careful about inferring relationships of extinct species based on shared form,» said Shara Bailey, a coauthor and paleoanthropologist at New York University.

In addition, says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin, the current study might be obscuring a contribution of Neandertal genes to the African gene pool, because the team specifically looked to explain genetic diversity in non-Africans compared with Africans.

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

Pääbo had been collaborating with Russian paleoanthropologists who were excavating fossils in a cave in Siberia called Denisova.

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.

That's roughly 10 percent,» University of Wisconsin at Madison paleoanthropologist John Hawks told LiveScience in 2009.

If the new dates for the Spanish cave art are confirmed, they could indicate that Neandertals and H. sapiens exchanged artistic traditions earlier than previously thought, says paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, who was not involved in the studies.

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.

Despite the age and unprecedented completeness of the new ape skull, no reported tooth or skull features clearly place N. alesi close to the origins of living apes and humans, says paleoanthropologist David Begun of the University of Toronto.

«Human evolution used to seem simple and linear,» says paleoanthropologist William Jungers of the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

«If you're going to walk into someone else's territory, you want to signal that you're a friend, not a foe,» says George Washington University paleoanthropologist Alison Brooks.

«This is a real lineage, and we have to work out what the hell it looks like,» says paleoanthropologist Bernard Wood of George Washington University in Washington.

On an expedition designed with paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson, examine carvings and cave paintings that illustrate life up to 40,000 years ago.

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.

Wong also solicited remarks from leading paleoanthropologists and continued her own reporting.

«Teeth are stronger than bones, and they are much more likely to survive the ages,» writes University of Arkansas paleoanthropologist Peter S. Ungar in his book Evolution's Bite: A Story of Teeth, Diet and Human Origins.

«Terrestrial animals like antelopes and gazelles, elephants and rhinos and giraffes — all these bones show very similar fracture and breakage patterns as Lucy,» adds paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of ASU, co-discoverer of Lucy.

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

«This gave us a series of fantastic, high - resolution snapshots across an ancient landscape — a true picture of what Ardi's habitat was like,» says University of California at Berkeley paleoanthropologist Tim White, a codirector of the team.

The facial bones which contain a lot of diagnostic traits for paleoanthropologists, were, however, missing.

But a pair of paleoanthropologists from the University of Zurich have now called Lucy's femininity into question.

But he agrees with paleoanthropologist Rick Potts of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., who says the idea is a nonstarter because no tools, fire, or other signs of culture have been linked to the fossils.

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.

«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.

That, at least, is what paleoanthropologist Christine Steininger says as we push our way up a gentle incline covered in waist - tall, brown and green grasses near Maropeng, a town about 45 minutes from Johannesburg, South Africa.

«We want people to understand that it didn't happen all at once,» says Smithsonian paleoanthropologist Richard Potts.

People who work in this field are known as paleoanthropologists.

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

asked paleoanthropologist Leslie Aiello, president of the Wenner - Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Inc. in New York City.

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

But other paleoanthropologists who have studied Lucy's bones are highly skeptical.

Zeresenay Alemseged is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist who studies the origins of humanity in the Ethiopian desert, focusing on the emergence of childhood and tool use.

None of us expected that,» says paleoanthropologist Michael Westaway of Griffith University, Nathan, in Australia, a co-author on the Willerslev paper.

After furious debate, most paleoanthropologists now agree that Homo floresiensis, nicknamed the hobbit, is a genuine ancient human with a teensy brain folded in ways that increased its complexity — enough for hobbits to hunt cooperatively, knap their own tools, and thrive on an island for more than a million years.

Decades ago paleoanthropologists argued about whether our ancient ancestors evolved large brains and then walked erect or became bipedal before they were brainy.

Most paleoanthropologists believe that the hobbit belongs to a new species of human, Homo floresiensis.

The inside surface of Jebel Irhoud braincases, which were long and low, has a distinctive shape that perhaps represents an early evolutionary step toward later humans» rounded skullcaps, suggests paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer.

«Ardi seems to have been able to bridge both worlds,» says paleoanthropologist Carol Ward of the University of Missouri in Columbia, who was not part of the team.

It was here in 2008 that Matthew Berger, the young son of American paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, found a fossilized clavicle sticking out of a rock.

Adds paleoanthropologist David Begun of the University of Toronto in Canada: «It will allow us to begin to identify genetic changes specific to humans since our divergence from chimps.»

«Meat eating was a big, significant change,» says paleoanthropologist Robert Foley of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

«Finally,» says paleoanthropologist Bruce Latimer of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, «we can put the mystery hominid at Laetoli to rest.»

asks paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson of Arizona State University in Tempe.

Paleoanthropologists know more about Neandertals than any other extinct human.

The new study coincides with previous evidence that Ardi's lower back was flexible enough to support straight - legged walking, says paleoanthropologist Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University in Ohio.

Research from paleoanthropologist Dean Falk, of the State University of New York at Albany, indicates that men might, and it may be related to the size of their brains.

It also shows that these ancient «populations moved around a lot and intermixed,» says paleoanthropologist Erik Trinkaus of Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri, who is not a co-author.

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.

On July 17, 1959, British paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovered a skull from an ancient hominid species, Paranthropus boisei, or «southern ape.»

Last March at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, «a research assistant at the American Museum of Natural History... in New York City charged that her boss — noted paleoanthropologist Brian Richmond, the museum's curator of human origins — had «sexually assaulted» her in his hotel room after a meeting the previous September in Florence, Italy.»