I'm no paleontologist either, but Neanderthals split long after from that line.
From the newscientist.com
They showed a video in which a white, bearded paleontologist stands before a dig.
From the scienceblogs.com
Shubin, a member of the team, is a paleontologist at the University of Chicago.
From the nytimes.com
The fossil was named Sue after the paleontologist who found it-Sue Hendrickson.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz was a glaciologist, geologist, and paleontologist.
From the theepochtimes.com
Niles Eldredge is a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History.
From the time.com
Celestae is named after Celeste Yates, the wife of paleontologist Adam Yates.
From the dailyherald.com
One of my degrees is in medical anthropology, and I'm an avid paleontologist.
From the stltoday.com
No evolutionary biologist, no paleontologist, no taxonomist would deny that.
From the guardian.co.uk
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