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

Meanwhile, 42 eminent archaeologists and paleoanthropologists from the United States and Europe signed a letter demanding that Italy's minister of the cultural heritage move the archaeological collection to a new location and create an international scientific panel to assess the effects of the contamination.

Not exact matches

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

Now, however, a trio of paleoanthropologists — Yonatan Sahle and Sireen El Zaatari of the University of Tübingen in Germany and Tim White of the University of California, Berkeley — have shown that crocodile teeth can also leave V - shaped cuts in mammal bones that are indistinguishable from stone - tool cuts.

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.

Donald Johanson, the paleoanthropologist who found Lucy more than 40 years ago, noted that other fossils discovered nearby also appear damaged, possibly from a stampede, or from the weight of sediment and other material collecting over millennia.

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.

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

CALGARY — In 2010 paleoanthropologists announced to great fanfare that they had recovered from a South African cave two partial skeletons of a previously unknown member of the human family that lived nearly two million years ago.

The team of scientists working with the paleoanthropologist Scherf compared the humerus of the 7000 year old «patient» with humeri of 11 individuals from the same site in southern Germany, where they were excavated between 1982 and 1993.

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.»

Just as a high - profile expedition to retrieve fossils of human ancestors from deep within a cave system in South Africa was getting underway in 2013, two spelunkers pulled aside paleoanthropologist Lee Berger.

When paleoanthropologist Zeresenay Alemseged of the Max Planck Institute in Germany first saw what appeared to be tiny hominid remains encased in 3.3 - million - year - old sandstone in northern Ethiopia — just miles from where the famous Lucy skeleton was found 32 years earlier — he knew he had found something special.

«These specimens should have been compared to early Holocene skeletons from China,» because they look much the same, contends paleoanthropologist Peter Brown, from the University of New England in Australia.

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.

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.

Efforts are under way to date the fossils and sediment from which they were excavated with a variety of techniques, said paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin — Madison.

Paleoanthropologists have found the bones and teeth of hundreds of individuals of A. afarensis from between 3 million and 4 million years ago.

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.

Paleoanthropologist Robert Martin of The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois, agrees that the new paper does «provide the first evidence that metabolic limitations» from a raw food diet impose a limit on how big a primate's brain — or body — can grow.

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.

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).

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.

Or at least, their lineage did, according to Spanish paleoanthropologists who analyzed 17 ancient skulls from a deep bone pit in the Atapuerca Mountains of northern Spain.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

Yet paleoanthropologists have found numerous hominid fossils to bridge the evolutionary progression from that unknown common ancestor to modern humans.

She also existed thousands of years after Neanderthals died out, and the paleoanthropologists who found her think she's from a different species of archaic humans.

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.

Tattersall said, «Paleoanthropologists are having a hard time letting go of the old idea that human evolution was a linear process, but fossils like this one from Dmanisi are making it ever clearer that hominid history has been one of diversity and evolutionary experimentation with the hominid potential.»

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.

«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.

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