Yohannes Haile-Selassie
Ethiopian paleoanthropologist (born 1961) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Yohannes Haile-Selassie Ambaye (born 23 February 1961) is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist. An authority on pre-Homo sapiens hominids, he particularly focuses his attention on the East African Rift and Middle Awash valleys.[2] He was curator of Physical Anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History from 2002 until 2021, and now is serving as the director of the Arizona State University Institute of Human Origins. Since founding the institute in 1981, he has been the third director after Donald Johanson and William Kimbel.[3]
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Born | Yohannes Haile Selassie (1961-02-23) 23 February 1961 (age 63)[1] |
Nationality | Ethiopian |
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Fields | Archeology |
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Thesis | Late Miocene Mammalian Fauna from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia (2001) |
Doctoral advisor | Tim D. White |
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