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Zeresenay Alemseged's Degrees

PhD Anthropology University of Chicago
Masters Zoology Addis Ababa University
Bachelors Biology Addis Ababa University

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According to Wikipedia, Zeresenay "Zeray" Alemseged is an paleoanthropologist who is a faculty member at the University of Chicago. In 2013, he was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2021. In 2022, he was appointed to the Comité Scientifique International du Musée d’Anthropologie Préhistorique de Monaco and the Pontifical Academy of Science. 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. 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; a subject about which we have very little information. Alemseged discovered Selam while working with the Dikika Research Project , a multi-national research project funded in part by the National Science Foundation, 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 Alemseged's Published Works

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Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia (2010) (566)
A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia (2006) (341)
Isotopic evidence of early hominin diets (2013) (223)
Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence (2011) (147)
An integrated approach to taphonomy and faunal change in the Shungura formation (Ethiopia) and its implication for hominid evolution. (2003) (145)
Australopithecus afarensis Scapular Ontogeny, Function, and the Role of Climbing in Human Evolution (2012) (129)
Geological and palaeontological context of a Pliocene juvenile hominin at Dikika, Ethiopia (2006) (111)
Diet of Australopithecus afarensis from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Ethiopia (2013) (97)
The Pleistocene fauna (other than Primates) from Asbole, lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia, and its environmental and biochronological implications (2004) (67)
Origins of the Human Predatory Pattern: The Transition to Large-Animal Exploitation by Early Hominins (2019) (62)
Enamel thickness trends in Plio-Pleistocene hominin mandibular molars. (2015) (59)
Fossil hominin shoulders support an African ape-like last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees (2015) (58)
Diet in Early Hominin Species: A Paleoenvironmental Perspective (2009) (56)
Stratigraphy, depositional environments, and basin structure of the Hadar and Busidima Formations at Dikika, Ethiopia (2008) (54)
Dietary and paleoenvironmental reconstruction using stable isotopes of herbivore tooth enamel from middle Pliocene Dikika, Ethiopia: implication for Australopithecus afarensis habitat and food resources. (2013) (50)
A new hominin from the Basal Member of the Hadar Formation, Dikika, Ethiopia, and its geological context. (2005) (50)
Taphonomy of fossils from the hominin-bearing deposits at Dikika, Ethiopia. (2015) (48)
Comparability of fossil data and its significance for the interpretation of hominin environments (2007) (47)
The late Miocene mammalian fauna of Chorora, Awash basin, Ethiopia: systematics, biochronology and 40K-40Ar ages of the associated volcanics (2002) (39)
Middle Pleistocene fossil Cercopithecidae from Asbole, Afar Region, Ethiopia. (2007) (38)
Approaches to the analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene (2007) (37)
Tool-marked bones from before the Oldowan change the paradigm (2011) (36)
Theropithecus atlanticus (Thomas, 1884) (Primates: Cercopithecidae) from the late Pliocene of Ahl al Oughlam, Casablanca, Morocco. (1998) (36)
Australopithecus afarensis endocasts suggest ape-like brain organization and prolonged brain growth (2020) (35)
Dietary flexibility of Australopithecus afarensis in the face of paleoecological change during the middle Pliocene: Faunal evidence from Hadar, Ethiopia. (2016) (35)
Bovid ecomorphology and hominin paleoenvironments of the Shungura Formation, lower Omo River Valley, Ethiopia. (2015) (33)
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Asbole fauna (Busidima Formation, Afar, Ethiopia) using stable isotopes (2010) (33)
Hominid cranium from Omo: Description and taxonomy of Omo-323-1976-896. (2002) (28)
A new Middle Pleistocene fauna from the Busidima-Telalak region of the Afar, Ethiopia (2000) (27)
Statistical estimates of hominin origination and extinction dates: A case study examining the Australopithecus anamensis-afarensis lineage. (2019) (25)
A nearly complete foot from Dikika, Ethiopia and its implications for the ontogeny and function of Australopithecus afarensis (2018) (23)
Isotopic evidence for the timing of the dietary shift toward C4 foods in eastern African Paranthropus (2020) (22)
Digital data collection in paleoanthropology (2015) (21)
Thoracic vertebral count and thoracolumbar transition in Australopithecus afarensis (2017) (21)
Fossils from Mille-Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, elucidate the link between Pliocene environmental changes and Homo origins (2020) (20)
Nyctereutes lockwoodi, n. sp., a New Canid (Carnivora: Mammalia) from the Middle Pliocene of Dikika, Lower Awash, Ethiopia (2010) (18)
Dietary trends in herbivores from the Shungura Formation, southwestern Ethiopia (2020) (18)
Enhydriodon dikikae, sp. nov. (Carnivora: Mammalia), a Gigantic Otter from the Pliocene of Dikika, Lower Awash, Ethiopia (2011) (17)
Paleodietary reconstruction using stable isotopes and abundance analysis of bovids from the Shungura Formation of South Omo, Ethiopia. (2015) (17)
A missing piece of the Papio puzzle: Gorongosa baboon phenostructure and intrageneric relationships. (2019) (13)
Maxillary molar enamel thickness of Plio-Pleistocene hominins. (2020) (10)
Gorongosa by the sea: First Miocene fossil sites from the Urema Rift, central Mozambique, and their coastal paleoenvironmental and paleoecological contexts (2019) (9)
Temporal evidence shows Australopithecus sediba is unlikely to be the ancestor of Homo (2019) (9)
Stable isotopes serving as a checkpoint (2015) (7)
Diversity analysis of Plio-Pleistocene large mammal communities in the Omo-Turkana Basin, eastern Africa. (2018) (7)
Pliocene Carnivora (Mammalia) from the Hadar Formation at Dikika, Lower Awash Valley, Ethiopia (2015) (5)
Second conference of the East African association for paleoanthropology and paleontology: Fifty years after discovery of Zinjanthropus (2009) (4)
Comparative morphology and ontogeny of the thoracolumbar transition in great apes, humans, and fossil hominins. (2019) (4)
Comparative biomechanics of the Pan and Macaca mandibles during mastication: finite element modelling of loading, deformation and strain regimes (2021) (4)
Australopithecus in Ethiopia (2013) (3)
Reply to Fontes-Villalba et al.: On a reluctance to conjecture about animal food consumption (2013) (3)
New Remains of Camelus grattardi (Mammalia, Camelidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Ethiopia and the Phylogeny of the Genus (2019) (3)
Experimental definition of bone surface signatures from natural unmodified stones and implications for early hominin subsistence (2011) (3)
Plio‐Pleistocene mammals from Mille‐Logya, Ethiopia, and the post‐Hadar faunal change (2021) (3)
Reply to Melillo: Woranso-Mille is consistent with an australopithecine shoulder intermediate between African apes and Homo (2015) (3)
Accessory cusp expression at the enamel-dentine junction of hominin mandibular molars (2021) (3)
The first Miocene fossils from coastal woodlands in the southern East African Rift (2021) (2)
Finale and Future: Investigating faunal evidence for hominin paleoecology in East Africa (2007) (2)
On fossil recovery potential in the Australopithecus anamensis-Australopithecus afarensis lineage: A reply to. (2021) (1)
Finale and future (2007) (1)
A new association for East African paleoanthropology and paleontology (2008) (1)
On the presence of Elephas recki at the Oldowan prehistoric site of Fejej FJ-1 (Ethiopia) (2002) (1)
Geological and tectonic framework for the 3.8-0.6 Ma Dikika Research Project area, and its implications for the study of the paleoenvironments of Human evolution in the Afar depression, Ethiopia. (2007) (1)
Connecting palaeoscientists in eastern Africa and the wider world (2019) (1)
Results of the Second Field Season of the South East Ethiopia Cave Survey Project: Test Excavations, Survey, Rock Art, and Speleothems (2009) (1)
Comment (Case 3847) – Opposition to the proposed conservation of Simopithecus oswaldi Andrews, 1916 (currently Theropithecus oswaldi; Mammalia, Primates, Cercopithecidae), by reversal of precedence with Cynocephalus atlanticus Thomas, 1884(see BZN 78: 99–106 [Case]) (2022) (1)
Gorongosa National Park and the biogeography of human origins in the Mio-Pliocene (2017) (1)
Mandibular P4 morphology among Plio-Pleistocene hominins: taxonomic implications and morphological trends (2011) (1)
PALEODIETARY RECONSTRUCTION USING STABLE ISOTOPES OF HERBIVORES FROM THE SHUNGURA FORMATION, ETHIOPIA: IMPLICATIONS FOR HOMININ ENVIRONMENTS (2018) (1)
A platform for East African paleoanthropology: Third biannual conference of the EAAPP (2012) (0)
Pliocene Paleoenvironments of the Awash Valley, Ethiopia: The Isotope Record of Tooth Enamel and its Relevance to the Pliocene Paleoclimate of Northeastern Africa (2010) (0)
Reply to Almécija: A new direction for reconstructing our last common ancestor with chimpanzees (2016) (0)
New Remains of Camelus grattardi (Mammalia, Camelidae) from the Plio-Pleistocene of Ethiopia and the Phylogeny of the Genus (2019) (0)
Does the model reflect the system? When two-dimensional biomechanics is not ‘good enough’ (2023) (0)
Premolar root and canal variation in the hominin clade. (2017) (0)
Paleoanthropological research at Dikika, Ethiopia, and Comparative morphology of the Juvenile Hominin from DIK-1 (2007) (0)
Palodietary reconstructions of Plio-Pleistocene Bovids from the Shungura Formation, Omo, Ethiopia using stable isotopes; Implication for Hominin environments (2014) (0)
Science Journals — AAAS (2016) (0)
Visualization of a Juvenile Australopithecus afarensis Specimen: Implications for Functional Foot Anatomy (2019) (0)
Patterns of metameric variation in premolar root morphology in fossil hominins (2017) (0)
Using Machine Learning to predict locomotor behavior from femoral metaphyseal morphology in apes and humans (2018) (0)
Hominin locomotion and evolution in the Late Miocene to Late Pliocene. (2023) (0)
Reappraising the palaeobiology of Australopithecus (2023) (0)
Diet in the earliest hominins : a paleoenvironmental perspective (2006) (0)
Femoral metaphyseal morphology as a predictor of locomotor behavior (2017) (0)
Paleoenvironments and Dietary Adaptation of Australopithecus afarensis: A Synthesis (2017) (0)
Plio-Pleistocene paleoenvironments of the Shungura Formation based on bovid dental adaptation and abundance analysis (2017) (0)
Comparative Ontogeny of the Thoracolumbar Transition in Great Apes, Humans, and Fossil Hominins (2018) (0)
Corrigendum to “Enamel thickness trends in Plio-Pleistocene hominin mandibular molars” [J Hum Evol 85 (2015) 35–45] (2016) (0)
Taphonomy and local paleoecology of the juvenile hominin from DIK-1, Ethiopia (2007) (0)
Upper molar enamel thickness of Plio-Pleistocene hominins. (2016) (0)
Insights into early hominids' dentition using synchrotron tomography (2012) (0)
Below the crown: Examining interspecies variation in postcanine enamel thickness, EDJ, and root form in the Paranthropus clade (2018) (0)
New Hominin Remains from Mille ‐ Logya , Afar , Ethiopia and Their Implication for the Origin of Homo (2019) (0)
The ontogeny of extant hominoid and Australopithecus afarensis shoulder morphology (2009) (0)
Faunal context of the Pliocene Dikika Locality, Hadar Formation, Ethiopia. (2007) (0)
Connecting palaeoscientists in eastern Africa and the wider world (2019) (0)

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