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• n  the scientific study of human fossils

• It appeared that he too possessed the "Leakey luck" and was well on the way to stardom in paleoanthropology.
• She appeared at just the right time, I think, in terms of paleoanthropology, in the sense that we had very few fossils beyond three million years old at that point.
• Building on this find, Louis and Mary attracted a multidisciplinary team of specialists to work at Olduvai and launched the modern science of paleoanthropology, the study of human .

• palaeoanthropology
• human paleontology
• human palaeontology

News & Articles

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• Neanderthals May Have Made First Specialized Bone Tools
  April Flowers for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Sorting through tiny bone remnants in the University of California, Davis paleoanthropology lab in 2011, undergraduate student Naomi Martisius discovered a peculiar piece. The fragment she found was from a French archaeological site, and it turned out to be a part of an early, specialized bone tool used by a Neanderthal before the first ...
  Sept. 21, 2013 - redOrbit

Quotes

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• Zeresenay Alemseged in New York Times
  Her completeness, antiquity and age at death make this find unprecedented in the history of paleoanthropology,said Zeresenay Alemseged, the Ethiopian leader of the discovery team and a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary...
• Donald Johanson in Web Devil
  Lucy is one of a kind, fragile, and invaluable to the science of paleoanthropology (a combination of paleontology and anthropology),Johanson said in an e-mail. "There are always dangers when an irreplaceable object is traveled, but this...