palaeoanthropologistpaleoanthropologistn.
/ˌpalɪəʊˌanθrəˈpɒlədʒɪst/, /ˌpeɪlɪəʊˌanθrəˈpɒlədʒɪst/, U.S. /ˈˌpeɪlioʊˌænθrəˈpɑlədʒəst/ An expert in or student of palaeoanthropology.
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palaeoanthropologist1934
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Paleoanthropologist.
1937 Life 12 Apr. 21/1 Although palaeoanthropologists argue endlessly over the years of man, predominant opinion is that the Peking Man lived approximately a million years ago.
1966 Current Anthropol. 7 580/2 It is one matter for a palaeoanthropologist to look at a squashed and distorted cranium and to declare that it must have had a brain size of at least 800 cc; [etc.].
1993 New Scientist 22 May 18/2 Palaeoanthropologists have reconstructed pelvic girdles belonging to ‘Lucy’, the famous 3-million-year-old female Australopithecus afarensis from Hadar in Ethiopia.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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