page_title: Paleoanthropology
section_title: Renowned paleoanthropologists
hierarchical_section_title: Paleoanthropology / Renowned paleoanthropologists
caption_attribution_description: English: Fossil Hominid Skull Display at The Museum of Osteology
context_page_description: Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology with a human focus, which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship lines within the family Hominidae, working from biological evidence and cultural evidence.
  The field draws from and combines primatology, paleontology, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology. As technologies and methods advance, genetics plays an ever-increasing role, in particular to examine and compare DNA structure as a vital tool of research of the evolutionary kinship lines of related species and genera.
context_section_description: Robert Ardrey (1908–1980)
  Lee Berger (1965–)
  Davidson Black (1884–1934)
  Robert Broom (1866–1951)
  Michel Brunet (1940–)
  J. Desmond Clark (1916–2002)
  Carleton S. Coon (1904–1981)
  Raymond Dart (1893–1988)
  Eugene Dubois (1858–1940)
  Johann Carl Fuhlrott (1803–1877)
  Aleš Hrdlička (1869–1943)
  Glynn Isaac (1937–1985)
  Donald C. Johanson (1943–)
  Kamoya Kimeu (1940–)
  Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald (1902–1982)
  Jeffrey Laitman (1951–)
  Louis Leakey (1903–1972)
  Meave Leakey (1942–)
  Mary Leakey (1913–1996)
  Richard Leakey (1944–)
  André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986)
  Kenneth Oakley (1911–1981)
  David Pilbeam (1940–)
  John T. Robinson (1923–2001)
  Jeffrey H. Schwartz (1948–)
  Chris Stringer (1947–)
  Ian Tattersall (1945–)
  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955)
  Phillip V. Tobias (1925–2012)
  Erik Trinkaus (1948–)
  Alan Walker (1938–2017)
  Franz Weidenreich (1873–1948)
  Milford H. Wolpoff (1942–)
  Tim D. White (1950–)
  John D. Hawks
  Yohannes Haile-Selassie (1961–)
  Sonia Harmand (1974–)
caption: Fossil hominid skull display at The Museum of Osteology in Oklahoma City, USA
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