Sentences with phrase «paleoanthropologists who»

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.

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.

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

Intermixing does not surprise paleoanthropologists who have long argued on the basis of fossils that archaic humans, such as the Neandertals in Eurasia and Homo erectus in East Asia, mated with early moderns and can be counted among our ancestors — the so - called multiregional evolution theory of modern human origins.

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.

Karen Rosenberg is a paleoanthropologist who specializing in pelvic morphology, Neandertals, the origin of modern humans and the evolution of human childbirth and infant helplessness.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

«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.

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.

Paleoanthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, who was present when Henneberg made his case, notes on his blog that Brown's CT scan «has rather poor resolution (typical of medical CT scans), and cuts through the lingual cusps of the lower M1, not the buccal (cheek) cusps which appear to have been most affected by the irregularity.»

Paleoanthropologist Peter Brown of the University of New England in Armidale, Australia, who led the initial analysis of LB1, says his own photograph of the occlusal (chewing) surface «shows there is no filling.

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.

«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.

However, the hominin bones have been stored in a safe in the armory and so far show no visible damage, says paleoanthropologist Lorenzo Rook of the University of Florence in Italy, who delivered the letter to the Italian ministry last Friday.

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.

Australian paleoanthropologist Peter Brown insists the skeleton is a new type of human who should be called Homo floresiensis.

This is a «plausible scenario for the demise of Lucy,» says paleoanthropologist William Jungers of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, who reviewed the paper for Nature.

This is the most ancient proof of social care of the handicapped,» says Ana Gracia, a paleoanthropologist based in Madrid, who published an analysis of the skull in March in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«It's exciting to find Homo sapiens outside of Africa this early,» says paleoanthropologist Shara Bailey of New York University, an expert on early human teeth, who was not involved in the new Misliya cave study.

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 first bones were found by Matthew Berger, the young son of paleoanthropologist Lee Berger, who joined his father at press events touting the find.

According to paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his colleagues, who unearthed and analyzed the remains, they represent a new species of human — Homo naledi, for «star» in the local Sotho language — that could overturn some deeply entrenched ideas about the origin and evolution of our genus, Homo.

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.

«Clearly much more has to be done on the functionality of this, but it's tempting to think it's linked with some of the differences in sugar metabolism that have been picked up already,» writes paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London, who is not a member of the team, in an e-mail.

«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.

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.

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.

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

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.

People who work in this field are known as paleoanthropologists.

«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.

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

«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.

Paleoanthropologists have disagreed about how they relate to other human groups, some positing they were ancestors of both modern humans and Neanderthals, others that they were a nonancestral species replaced by the Neanderthals, who spread across Europe.

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.