Sentences with phrase «what paleoanthropologist»
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.
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«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.
«What I found fascinating is the interdigitization of the Neandertals and Denisovans — that both groups were in and out of the cave,» says paleoanthropologist Leslie Aiello of the Wenner - Gren Foundation in New York City.
Writing in Nature in 1964, the prominent paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey connected the tools with what he said was the first member of the human genus, Homo habilis, or «handy man.»
The lead researcher, paleoanthropologist Peter Brown of the University of New England in Australia, says his jaw dropped when he realized what he was looking at.
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.
The unique adaptability of Homo sapiens is what allowed us to survive when so many other species died out, paleoanthropologist Rick Potts contends.
«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.
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.»