Sentences with phrase «paleoanthropologist yohannes»

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

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

Eric Roth has written the script, based on the true story of paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey and his battle with the ivory poachers who threatened the African elephant population.

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

That's when Varki turned to a long - time collaborator — paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey of TBI.

He's a paleoanthropologist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

He's a paleoanthropologist at University College London.

«Lucy's species just got a few more new fossils,» this paleoanthropologist concludes.

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

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

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

She, too, is a paleoanthropologist.

Nevertheless, «Neanderthals certainly had, in their own way, a sophisticated intellect in evolutionary terms,» Antonio Rosas, a paleoanthropologist at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid, told Seeker.

«This is a rock - solid case for having early humans — definitely Homo sapiens — at an early date in eastern Asia,» Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, who was not part of the research, told Nature.

Lee Berger, the American paleoanthropologist, who led the team that made the discovery, told the BBC.

«The first recognizable stone tools consist of stone pebbles and simple flakes and date to about 2.5 million years ago from Ethiopia,» Skinner, who is a paleoanthropologist at the University of Kent and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, said.

Paleoanthropologist Yohannes Haile - Selassie conducts comparative analysis of Australopithecus deyiremeda in his laboratory at Cleveland Museum of Natural History on April 29, 2015, in this image released to Reuters on May 26, 2015.

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.

Caley Orr, an assistant professor in the Department of Anatomy at Midwestern University, and Eric Delson, a paleoanthropologist at Lehman College / CUNY and the American Museum of Natural History, both think that the new theory erasing the other Homo species is intriguing, but believe that more specimens and additional research are needed to fully validate it.

And Philipp Gunz, a paleoanthropologist and co-author of two new studies on the fossils, told the New York Times, «We did not evolve from a single «cradle of mankind» somewhere in East Africa.

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.

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She is a Paleoanthropologist broadly interested in the role past environments have played in molding our species into the diverse and complex organisms that we are today.

The new skulls «definitely» fit what you'd expect from a Denisovan, adds paleoanthropologist María Martinón - Torres of the University College London — «something with an Asian flavor but closely related to Neandertals.»

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.

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.

Paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, for example, plans to ask his students to determine whether there's more intermarriage between hunter - gatherer groups that live close together and, therefore, are likely to have similar cultures.

The Morocco fossils indicate that humankind's emergence involved populations across much of Africa, and started about 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, says paleoanthropologist Jean - Jacques Hublin of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

The skulls do share traits with some other fossils in east Asia dating from 600,000 to 100,000 years ago that also defy easy classification, says paleoanthropologist Rick Potts of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. Those features include a broad cranial base where the skull sits atop the spinal column and a low, flat plateau along the top of the skull.

But although the team avoids the word, «everyone else would wonder whether these might be Denisovans,» which are close cousins to Neandertals, says paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.

Paleoanthropologist Karen Rosenberg of the University of Delaware, Newark, moved beyond pain.

«He does bring more scientific rigor to this question than anyone else in the past, and he does do state - of - the - art footprint analysis,» notes David R. Begun, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Toronto.

Paleoanthropologist Erik Trinkaus of Washington University in St. Louis disagrees.

«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.

But William Kimbel, a paleoanthropologist and Lucy expert at Arizona State University, Tempe, says when comparing Lucy and the new species, «the distinctions in my view are pretty subtle.»

«They are not Neandertals in the full sense,» says co-author Erik Trinkaus, a paleoanthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis in Missouri.

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

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.

About half of the 31 copies came from the girl's mother and half from her father, producing a genome «of equivalent quality to a recent human genome,» says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who was not part of the team.

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.

The unique adaptability of Homo sapiens is what allowed us to survive when so many other species died out, paleoanthropologist Rick Potts contends.

But these data don't directly measure brain shape, making it difficult to untangle precisely how quickly or slowly human brains became as round as they are today, says paleoanthropologist Christoph Zollikofer of the University of Zurich.

«This is a momentous and well - researched discovery,» said paleoanthropologist Bernard Wood of George Washington University, who was not involved in the study.

So the discovery of eight ancient bones from another foot is «a really important step in our evolution of the human gait,» says paleoanthropologist Brian Richmond of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., who is not a co-author.

Additional commentary from paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer (Natural History Museum, London), geneticist Sarah Tishkoff (University of Pennsylvania), and study author Svante Pääbo (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).

Paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London agrees that the Sima fossils are ancestral only to Neandertals, not modern humans, but questions the date and classification of the find.

Whatever its name, others agree that the foot is unexpectedly primitive for 3.4 million years ago: «I would have expected such a foot from a much older hominin, not one that overlapped with A. afarensis, which has a much more derived foot than this thing,» says paleoanthropologist Jeremy DeSilva of Boston University, who is not a member of Haile - Selassie's team.

Turning up the pain threshold a notch, anatomist and paleoanthropologist Bruce Latimer of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, limped to the podium, dangling a twisted human backbone as evidence of real pain.

«It is notoriously difficult to identify the species of coprolites,» says paleoanthropologist Michael Richards of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, who studies isotopes in the Neandertal diet.

Other activities that the hominins engaged in frequently during development, such as digging tubers or climbing, might also explain the signs of stress, warns paleoanthropologist C. Owen Lovejoy of Kent State University in Ohio.