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Tim D. White

Tim D. White is a prominent paleontologist specializing in paleoanthropology. His research focuses on hominins, extinct...

USA Africa Paleoanthropology Hominins

9.1 Excellent

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Chris Stringer

Chris Stringer is a prominent paleontologist specializing in human origins. His extensive research focuses on paleoanthr...

Britain Human Origins Paleoanthropology Hominins

8.9 Great

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Jean-Jacques Hublin

Jean-Jacques Hublin is a prominent French paleontologist specializing in human origins. His work focuses primarily on pa...

France Human Origins Paleoanthropology Hominins

8.9 Great

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Barnum Brown

Barnum Brown was a pioneering paleontologist specializing in dinosaur fieldwork. His discovery of the initial Tyrannosau...

USA Fieldwork Tyrannosaurus Dinosaurs

8.8 Great

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Michel Brunet

Michel Brunet is a French paleontologist, known for the 2001 Chad discovery of Toumai, the type skull of Sahelanthropus...

France Fieldwork Paleoanthropology Hominins

8.8 Great

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Jack Horner

Jack Horner is an American paleontologist who described Maiasaura nesting grounds in Montana, key evidence for dinosaur...

USA Fieldwork Eggs Dinosaurs

8.4 Great

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Dong Zhiming

Dong Zhiming was a Chinese dinosaur paleontologist at IVPP who co-named Shunosaurus in 1983 and authored Dinosaurian Fau...

China Jurassic Fieldwork Dinosaurs

8.4 Great

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Bernard Wood

Bernard Wood is a paleoanthropologist noted for his research on early human evolution, including foundational descriptiv...

USA Anatomy Paleoanthropology Hominins

8.4 Great

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Yohannes Haile-Selassie

Yohannes Haile-Selassie is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist, known for naming Ardipithecus kadabba in 2001 and directing...

Fieldwork Ethiopia Paleoanthropology Hominins

8.3 Great

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Paul Sereno

Paul Sereno is an American paleontologist at the University of Chicago, noted for expeditions that described Eoraptor an...

USA Fieldwork Dinosaurs Sahara

8.2 Great

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Juan Luis Arsuaga

Juan Luis Arsuaga is a Spanish paleoanthropologist, known for Atapuerca's Sima de los Huesos research and 400,000-year-o...

Spain Paleoanthropology Hominins Atapuerca

8.2 Great

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Ian Tattersall

Ian Tattersall is a British-American paleoanthropologist and AMNH curator emeritus, known for Human Fossil Record and Ma...

USA Museums Paleoanthropology Hominins

8.2 Great

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Gen Suwa

Gen Suwa is a Japanese paleoanthropologist at the University of Tokyo, known for Middle Awash work and co-describing Ard...

Japan Fieldwork Paleoanthropology Hominins

8.1 Great

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José María Bermúdez de Castro

Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro is a Spanish paleoanthropologist, known as first author naming Homo antecessor from Atapue...

Spain Paleoanthropology Hominins Atapuerca

7.9 Good

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Roy Chapman Andrews

Roy Chapman Andrews was an American explorer who led 1920s AMNH expeditions to Mongolia's Gobi Desert, where crews found...

USA Fieldwork Dinosaurs Gobi

7.7 Good

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Ted Daeschler

Ted Daeschler is an American paleontologist at Drexel's Academy of Natural Sciences who co-discovered Tiktaalik in Arcti...

USA Fieldwork Devonian Tetrapods

7.7 Good

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Eudald Carbonell

Eudald Carbonell is a Catalan archaeologist and paleontologist, known for co-directing Atapuerca and helping identify Ho...

Spain Fieldwork Paleoanthropology Atapuerca

7.7 Good

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James I. Kirkland

James I. Kirkland is an American paleontologist and Utah state paleontologist who co-named the giant dromaeosaur Utahrap...

USA Fieldwork Dinosaurs Cretaceous

7.6 Good

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Rubén D. Martínez

Rubén D. Martínez is an Argentine paleontologist known for his fieldwork in Patagonia, notably co-authoring the 1986 des...

Fieldwork Argentina Dinosaurs Triassic

7.4 Good

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Louise Leakey

Louise Leakey is a Kenyan paleontologist and anthropologist, known for Turkana Basin fieldwork and founding the digital...

Fieldwork Kenya Paleoanthropology Hominins

7.3 Good