Zeresenay Alemseged
1969 – present
Zeresenay Alemseged is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist known for leading the Dikika Research Project in Ethiopia's Afar region. In 2000 his team recovered the fossil skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis child, nicknamed Selam, which was announced in 2006 and is among the most complete early hominin juvenile specimens known. He has held research and curatorial posts in Germany and the United States and teaches at the University of Chicago.
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Life events
Zeresenay Alemseged was born in Ethiopia in 1969.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe completed undergraduate studies in geology in Ethiopia before turning to paleoanthropology.
He earned a doctorate in paleoanthropology in France, working on early hominin fossils.
He established a long-running field project in the Dikika area of Ethiopia's Afar region.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHis team found the fossil remains of an Australopithecus afarensis child dated to about 3.3 million years ago.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Dikika skeleton was described in the journal Nature and widely reported in 2006.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe led the anthropology department at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe joined the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago.
Source: en.wikipedia.org