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palaeoanthropology
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palaeoanthropology [ˌpælɪəʊˌænθrəˈpɒlədʒɪ]
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(Social Science / Anthropology & Ethnology) the branch of anthropology concerned with primitive man
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Noun1.palaeoanthropology - the scientific study of human fossilspalaeoanthropology - the scientific study of human fossils
vertebrate paleontology - the paleontology of vertebrates


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On November 3, 10, and 17, PBS's NOVA premieres "Becoming Human," a three-part special on human evolution that combines interviews with world-renowned anthropologists and paleoanthropologists and the most recent, groundbreaking discoveries about our earliest ancestors to present a comprehensive picture of our human past.
Paleoanthropologists Cara Roure Johnson and Sally McBrearty of the University of Connecticut, Storrs, recently discovered the blades at five sites in the region, including two that date to between 509,000 and 543,000 years ago.
She joined her parents, paleoanthropologists Meave and Richard Leakey, at the Turkana Basin research site in East Africa when she was just 2 weeks old.
 
 
 
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