paleoanthropologist

Professor Francesco Mallegni is a paleoanthropologist also involved in the project.

Italians Search for da Vinci's Mona Lisa Model 2011

"It's as if evolution is caught in one vital moment, a stop-action snapshot of evolution in action," said paleoanthropologist Richard Potts, director of the Smithsonian Institution's Human Origins Program, who wasn't involved in the discoveries.

Fossil Trove Sheds Light On a Stage of Evolution Robert Lee Hotz 2011

Professor Francesco Mallegni is a paleoanthropologist also involved in the project.

Italians Search for da Vinci's Mona Lisa Model 2011

But paleoanthropologist Richard Potts of the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., says he would be "very cautious" about linking decorations to the gene study species.

Fossil DNA analysis may have revealed new human species 2010

"They are using everything," said curator and paleoanthropologist Rick Potts, buffeted by visitors on the exhibit's second day.

Smithsonian human origins exhibit elicits awe, protests 2010

Professor Francesco Mallegni is a paleoanthropologist also involved in the project.

Italians Search for da Vinci's Mona Lisa Model 2011

"By showing that at 4.4 million years there is a hominin ancestor that is less dimorphic than Australopithecus is, I think, very exciting because that is not what you would have predicted," says Zeresenay Alemseged, a paleoanthropologist at the California Academy of Sciences.

Catch a Pithecus by the Toe 2010

"It really doesn't differ from apes, and that's the surprising thing," says University of California, Berkeley, paleoanthropologist Tim White.

Catch a Pithecus by the Toe 2010

"I think he [Dr. Berger] is on to a gold mine," said paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall, curator at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, who wasn't involved in the find.

New Face in Human Family Tree Robert Lee Hotz 2010

"It is hard for me to actually find a lot of characteristics that are not chimpanzeelike," says David Begun, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Toronto and editor of the Journal of Human Evolution, who notes that while Ardi's teeth are different from chimpanzees, he doesn't see signs that she was adapted to walking on two feet.

Catch a Pithecus by the Toe 2010