Sentences with phrase «paleoanthropologist at»

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

He's a paleoanthropologist at University College London.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

«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.

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

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.

Rather than inheriting big brains from a common ancestor, Neandertals and modern humans each developed that trait on their own, perhaps favored by changes in climate, environment, or tool use experienced separately by the two species «more than half a million years of separate evolution,» writes Jean - Jacques Hublin, a paleoanthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, in a commentary in Science.

Plenty of gazelle meat, with the occasional wildebeest, zebra and other game and perhaps the seasonal ostrich egg, says Teresa Steele, a paleoanthropologist at the University of California, Davis, who analyzed animal fossils at Jebel Irhoud.

The traditional answer has been that Neanderthals have a big nose because they have a big mouth and a wide jaw, useful for ripping apart tough food, says Nathan Holton, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Iowa.

Neglected until a team of Australian and Chinese scientists decided to take a closer look, the remains are between 11,500 and 14,500 years old, says Darren Curnoe, a paleoanthropologist at the University of New South Wales who interpreted the find.

«The foot is not entirely humanlike, but it's more humanlike than not,» William Harcourt - Smith, a paleoanthropologist at Lehman College in the Bronx and the American Museum of Natural History in New York, told Live Science.

Since few great ape fossils have been found in Africa so far, «some scientists have forcefully suggested that the ancestors of African apes and humans must have emerged in Eurasia,» said study senior author Gen Suwa, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Tokyo.

Isabelle De Groote, a paleoanthropologist at Liverpool John Moores University in the United Kingdom, began looking into the question in 2009, applying modern scanning technology and DNA analysis to the original materials.

«Lee has to be congratulated for finding this stuff,» says Fred Grine, a paleoanthropologist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

asks Ian Tattersall, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Francis Thackeray, a paleoanthropologist at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, says he «strongly suspects» Teilhard de Chardin was in on the hoax.

«I think for the first time, by virtue of the Dmanisi hominins, we have a solid hypothesis for the origin of H. erectus,» says Rick Potts, a paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.

It was «a lineage that existed for 1 million years or more and we missed it,» says co-author John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at the Natural History Museum in London, says the new species could represent «a pre-heidelbergensis, post-erectus dispersal» out of Africa «that we haven't picked up yet.»

«If you put a hundred strange chimpanzees in a room, there would be bloodshed,» says Steven Churchill, a paleoanthropologist at Duke University.

Owen Lovejoy, a paleoanthropologist at Kent State University, has spent his career studying the fossils of early hominids.

Paleoanthropologist William Kimbel, anthropologist Katie Hinde, and paleoecologist Kaye Reed, all at ASU, began preparing the statement weeks ago, after learning of an impending Science story on alleged sexual misconduct by Brian Richmond, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

«Dmanisi was a good place to die,» says Martha Tappen, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Minnesota and part of the Dmanisi team since 2001.

«It confirms this idea that our lineage, Homo, is a response to climate change,» says Brian Villmoare, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Charles Hildebolt, a paleoanthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, has also been working on the Flores material and has obtained his own CT scans.

«More experimental work on bone damage caused by big, hungry crocs is also critical,» says coauthor Tim White, a paleoanthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

«Sex happens,» says Erik Trinkaus, a paleoanthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis.

Terry Harrison, a paleoanthropologist at New York University, questioned in Nature whether Ardi was even a member of the human lineage or just an ape «among the tangled branches» of a much larger bush.

Roberts co-led the study with archaeologist colleague Thomas Sutikna (who also helped coordinate the 2003 dig), and Matthew Tocheri, a paleoanthropologist at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Canada.

Curtis Marean, a paleoanthropologist at Arizona State University's Institute of Human Origins in Tempe, and a co-author on the 2010 paper, and his graduate student Jacob Harris, say in an email to Science that «a reassignment of agency based on nothing more than another look by the experts is not appropriate».

Manuel Domínguez - Rodrigo, a paleoanthropologist at the Complutense University of Madrid, says that in his own analysis of the Dikika bones, he found micro-abrasions along the bones» surface and intersecting striations within grooves, textures that suggest neither crocodile bites nor stone - tool cuts, but instead damage by animal trampling.

«I think basically everyone in zooarchaeology knows there's a problem with cutmarks,» says David Braun, a paleoanthropologist at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., who wasn't involved in the study.

«You need to point out to them that this is inappropriate,» said Fred Smith, a paleoanthropologist at Illinois State University in Normal.

Others, like William Jungers, a paleoanthropologist at Stony Brook University, say there isn't enough evidence to confirm that H. naledi is necessarily a new species.

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.

But Stanley Ambrose, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, dismisses Duarte's idea.

Not exact matches

An allegation against Richmond, the curator of human origins at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City, inspired a cascade of other allegations about him and motivated several senior paleoanthropologists to do battle against sexual harassment in their field.

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.

In the 1930s, paleoanthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey unearthed early stone artifacts at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and named them the Oldowan tool culture.

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.

At roughly 320,000 years old, the excavated Middle Stone Age tools are the oldest of their kind, paleoanthropologist Rick Potts and colleagues report in one of the new papers.

Stunning fossils of a claimed new human species have stirred up great excitement among paleoanthropologists, but some researchers have also flinched at the hype accompanying the unconventional excavation.

Al Wusta's ancient human fossil — combined with comparably ancient stone tools found at other Arabian Peninsula sites (SN: 4/4/15, p. 16)-- challenges the view that humans left Africa in one or a few major migrations, says paleoanthropologist María Martinόn - Torres.

Studies of DNA from living Africans, and from the 2,000 - year - old African boy, so far indicate that at least several branches of Homo — some not yet identified by fossils — existed in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago, says paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin — Madison, a member of the H. naledi team who refrains from classifying Jebel Irhoud individuals as H. sapiens.