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Zeresenay Alemseged
Researcher at University of Chicago
Publications - 75
Citations - 3144
Zeresenay Alemseged is an academic researcher from University of Chicago. The author has contributed to research in topics: Australopithecus afarensis & Australopithecus. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 71 publications receiving 2676 citations. Previous affiliations of Zeresenay Alemseged include Max Planck Society & California Academy of Sciences.
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Evidence for stone-tool-assisted consumption of animal tissues before 3.39 million years ago at Dikika, Ethiopia
Shannon P. McPherron,Zeresenay Alemseged,Curtis W. Marean,Jonathan G. Wynn,Denné Reed,Denis Geraads,René Bobe,Hamdallah Bearat +7 more
TL;DR: The discovery of stone-tool-inflicted marks on bones found during recent survey work in Dikika, Ethiopia, extends by approximately 800,000 years the antiquity of stone tools and ofStone- tool-assisted consumption of ungulates by hominins and can now be attributed to Australopithecus afarensis.
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A juvenile early hominin skeleton from Dikika, Ethiopia
Zeresenay Alemseged,Fred Spoor,William H. Kimbel,René Bobe,Denis Geraads,Denné Reed,Jonathan G. Wynn,Jonathan G. Wynn +7 more
TL;DR: The foot and other evidence from the lower limb provide clear evidence for bipedal locomotion, but the gorilla-like scapula and long and curved manual phalanges raise new questions about the importance of arboreal behaviour in the A. afarensis locomotor repertoire.
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Isotopic evidence of early hominin diets
Matt Sponheimer,Zeresenay Alemseged,Thure E. Cerling,Frederick E. Grine,William H. Kimbel,Meave G. Leakey,Julia A. Lee-Thorp,Fredrick K. Manthi,Kaye E. Reed,Bernard Wood,Jonathan G. Wynn +10 more
TL;DR: There is a trend toward greater consumption of 13C-enriched foods in early hominins over time, although this trend varies by region, and hominin carbon isotope ratios also increase with postcanine tooth area and mandibular cross-sectional area, which could indicate that these foods played a role in the evolution of australopith masticatory robusticity.
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An integrated approach to taphonomy and faunal change in the Shungura formation (Ethiopia) and its implication for hominid evolution.
TL;DR: A sample of over 22,000 fossils collected by the French Omo Expedition was analyzed using an integrated approach to investigate taphonomic and faunal change patterns and it is tentatively suggested that this major biome change is associated with an anagenetic speciation from A. aethiopicus to A. boisei.
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Hominin Environments in the East African Pliocene: An Assessment of the Faunal Evidence
TL;DR: The analysis of faunal change during the East African Pliocene has been studied in this paper, where the authors present a case study in the lower Omo Valley, Ethiopia of the Shungura Formation and some coeval deposits.