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David Pilbeam

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David Pilbeam (born 21 November 1940 in Brighton, Sussex, England) is the Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University and curator of paleoanthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. [1]

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Atelinae

The Atelinae are a subfamily of New World monkeys in the family Atelidae, and includes the various spider and woolly monkeys.

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Biological anthropology

Biological anthropology, also known as physical anthropology, is a scientific discipline concerned with the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings, their related non-human primates and their extinct hominin ancestors.

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Culture of Sussex

The culture of Sussex refers to the pattern of human activity and symbolism associated with Sussex and its people.

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Glynn Isaac

Glynn Llywelyn Isaac (19 November 1937 – 5 October 1985) was a South African archaeologist who specialised in the very early prehistory of Africa, and was one of twin sons born to botanists William Edwyn Isaac and Frances Margaret Leighton.

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International Prize (Fyssen Foundation)

The International Prize (French: Prix International) of the Fyssen Foundation is a science award that has been given annually since 1980 to a scientist who has conducted distinguished research in the areas supported by the foundation such as ethology, palaeontology, archaeology, anthropology, psychology, epistemology, logic and the neurosciences.

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James Mourilyan Tanner

James Mourilyan Tanner DSc, MRCP, FRCPsych, FRCP (1 August 1920 – 11 August 2010) was a British paediatric endocrinologist who was best known for his development of the Tanner scale, which measures the stages of sexual development during puberty.

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Jeffrey Laitman

Jeffrey Todd Laitman, Ph.D. (born October 13, 1951) is an American anatomist and physical anthropologist whose science has combined experimental, comparative, and paleontological studies to understand the development and evolution of the human upper respiratory and vocal tract regions.

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John Shea (archaeologist)

John Joseph Shea (born 9 May 1960 in Hamilton, Massachusetts) is an American archaeologists and paleoanthropologist.

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List of fossil primates

This is a list of fossil primates—extinct primates for which a fossil record exists.

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List of human evolution fossils

The following tables give a brief overview of several notable hominin fossil finds relating to human evolution beginning with the formation of the Hominini tribe in the late Miocene (roughly 6 million years ago).

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List of members of the National Academy of Sciences (Anthropology)

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List of people from Brighton and Hove

This is a list of notable inhabitants of the city of Brighton and Hove in England.

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Michel Brunet (paleontologist)

Michel Brunet (born on April 6, 1940) is a French paleontologist and a professor at the Collège de France.

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Paleoanthropology

Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of archaeology with a human focus, which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship lines within the family Hominidae, working from biological evidence (such as petrified skeletal remains, bone fragments, footprints) and cultural evidence (such as stone tools, artifacts, and settlement localities).

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Pilbeam

Pilbeam is a surname.

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Premolar

The premolar teeth, or bicuspids, are transitional teeth located between the canine and molar teeth.

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Proconsul nyanzae

Proconsul nyanzae is a species of fossil primate first discovered by Louis Leakey on Rusinga Island in 1942, which he published in Nature in 1943.It is also known by the name Dryopithecus africanus.

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Sahelanthropus

Sahelanthropus tchadensis is an extinct homininae species and is probably the ancestor to Orrorin that is dated to about, during the Miocene epoch, possibly very close to the time of the chimpanzee–human divergence.

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Silliman Memorial Lectures

The Silliman Memorial lectures series has been published by Yale University since 1901.

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Sivapithecus

Sivapithecus (Shiva's Ape) (syn: Ramapithecus) is a genus of extinct apes.

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Sussex

Sussex, from the Old English Sūþsēaxe (South Saxons), is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pilbeam

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