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Also Known As palaeoanthropology • human paleontology

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher and paleontologist
Lee Berger
South African paleoanthropologist
Daniel Lieberman
Daniel Lieberman
American paleoanthropologist
Meave G. Leakey
Meave G. Leakey
British paleoanthropologist
Leakey, Mary
Mary Douglas Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist
Tim D. White
Tim D. White
American paleoanthropologist
Raymond A. Dart
South African anthropologist

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