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Zeresenay Alemseged
Born
Axum
Alma mater
Addis Ababa University, University of Paris
Known for
Paleoanthropology and the discovery of the Selam/Dikika Child Australopithcecus afarensis fossil
Scientific career
Fields
Paleoanthropology, Anthropology
Institutions
University of Chicago
Zeresenay "Zeray" Alemseged (born 4 June 1969) is an paleoanthropologist who is a faculty member at the University of Chicago.[1] In 2013, he was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[2] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2021.[3] In 2022, he was appointed to the Comité Scientifique International du Musée d’Anthropologie Préhistorique de Monaco[4] and the Pontifical Academy of Science.[5] Alemseged is best known for his discovery, on 10 December 2000, of Selam, also referred to as the "Dikika child" or “Lucy’s child”, the almost-complete fossilized remains of a 3.3 million-year-old child of the species Australopithecus afarensis.[6] The “world’s oldest child”, she is the most complete skeleton of a human ancestor discovered to date. Selam represents a milestone in understanding of human and pre-human evolution and contributes significantly to understanding of the biology and childhood of early species in the human lineage;[7] a subject about which we have very little information. Alemseged discovered Selam while working with the Dikika Research Project (DRP), a multi-national research project funded in part by the National Science Foundation,[8] which he both initiated in 1999 and leads. The DRP has thus far made many important paleoanthropological discoveries and returns to the field each year to conduct further important research. Alemseged's specific research centers on the discovery and interpretation of hominin fossil remains and their environments, with emphasis on fieldwork designed to acquire new data on early hominin skeletal biology, environmental context, and behavior.
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Zeresenay "Zeray" Alemseged (born 4 June 1969) is an paleoanthropologist who is a faculty member at the University of Chicago. In 2013, he was named a...
Alemseged is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: ZeresenayAlemseged (born 1969), Ethiopian paleoanthropologist Alemseged...
mathematician and Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. ZeresenayAlemseged (born 1969), Ethiopian-American paleoanthropologist; discovered Selam...
Yohannes IV – Emperor of Ethiopia born in Tembien, Ethiopian Empire ZeresenayAlemseged – paleoanthropologist who was the Chair of the Anthropology Department...
Tigray People's Liberation Front Zera Yacob (1599–1692), philosopher ZeresenayAlemseged (b. 1969), palaeoanthropologist and was Chair of the Anthropology...
both past and present, more accurately and in much greater detail. ZeresenayAlemseged John Lawrence Angel George J. Armelagos William M. Bass Caroline...
it's purposeful" toolmaking, he remarked. A Paleoanthropologist ZeresenayAlemseged, who was responsible for the earlier research suggesting Australopithecus...
than Lucy or Dinknesh at 3.4 million years. McPherron, Shannon P.; Alemseged, Zeresenay; Marean, Curtis W.; Wynn, Jonathan G.; Reed, Denné; Geraads, Denis;...
to current knowledge of existing species. For example, in 2001, ZeresenayAlemseged discovered an Australopithecus afarensis child fossil, called Selam...
ISBN 978-0-521-32370-3. Also ISBN 0-521-46786-1 (paperback) McPherron, Shannon P.; ZeresenayAlemseged; Curtis W. Marean; Jonathan G. Wynn; Denne Reed; Denis Geraads; Rene...
1038/nature14464. PMID 25993961. S2CID 1207285. McPherron, Shannon P.; ZeresenayAlemseged; Curtis W. Marean; Jonathan G. Wynn; Denne Reed; Denis Geraads; Rene...
Organization WHO Meles Zenawi Asres, Prime Minister, Ethiopia 1995–2012 ZeresenayAlemseged, Anthropologist, known for his discovery of Selam, also referred...
in the same area. In 2000, scientists led by paleoanthropologist ZeresenayAlemseged discovered a veiled 3.3-million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis...
(alphabetized by last name): Rebecca R. Ackermann (University of Cape Town) ZeresenayAlemseged (California Academy of Sciences) Lee R. Berger (University of the...
Thomas W. Plummer, Joseph V. Ferraro, Julien Louys, Fritz Hertel, ZeresenayAlemseged, René Bobe, L. C. Bishop - Bovid ecomorphology and hominin paleoenvironments...
ancestor of members of the genus Homo is published by Andrew Du and ZeresenayAlemseged (2019). A study on pneumatization of temporal bone in the holotype...
survived past global warming". New Scientist. McPherron, Shannon P.; ZeresenayAlemseged; Curtis W. Marean; Jonathan G. Wynn; Denne Reed; Denis Geraads; Rene...
2019. Du, Andrew; Rowan, John; Wang, Steve C.; Wood, Bernard A.; Alemseged, Zeresenay (2020-01-01). "Statistical estimates of hominin origination and extinction...
includes the following participants (alphabetized by last name): ZeresenayAlemseged (California Academy of Sciences) Anna Barney (University of Southampton)...
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