Yohannes Haile-Selassie
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Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist. An authority on pre-Homo sapiens hominids, he particularly focuses his attention on the Rift and Middle Awash Valleys of East Africa.
He began his education at The Addis Ababa University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, graduating with a B.A. His graduate education began at The University of California, Berkeley, where he earned an M.A. in Anthropology in 1995 and a PhD in Integrative Biology in 2001. In 2002, he became the Curator and Head of Physical Anthropology Department at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Cleveland, Ohio, where he works currently. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Anatomy at Case Western Reserve University.
Haile-Selassie is well known in the field of paleoanthropology for having a gift for fossil spotting. He has been instrumental in the discoveries of Australopithecus garhi, Ardipithecus ramidus, and Ardipithecus kadabba.
The research conducted by Dr. Haile Selassie has been primarily funded by the Leakey Foundation.
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- Yohannes Haile-Selassie page at Cleveland Museum of Natural History site
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