Yohannes Haile-Selassie

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Yohannes Haile-Selassie Ambaye
Ethiopian
Alma mater
Known for
Scientific career
Fields
Archeology
Institutions
ThesisLate Miocene Mammalian Fauna from the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia (2001)
Doctoral advisorTim D. White

Yohannes Haile-Selassie Ambaye (born 23 February 1961) is an Ethiopian

hominids, he particularly focuses his attention on the East African Rift and Middle Awash valleys.[2]
He was curator of
Physical Anthropology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History from 2002 until 2021, and now is serving as the director of the Arizona State University Institute of Human Origins. Since founding the institute in 1981, he has been the third director after Donald Johanson and William Kimbel.[3]

Biography

Yohannes began his tertiary education at the Addis Ababa University in Addis Ababa, graduating in the summer of 1982 with a B.A. degree in history. His first job was at the Center for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Addis Ababa.[4]

His graduate education began at the

Physical Anthropology Department at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Cleveland, Ohio, where he works currently. He serves as an adjunct professor of Anthropology and Anatomy at Case Western Reserve University and as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Institute of Paleoenvironment and Heritage Conservation, Mekelle University
.

Yohannes is well known in the field of paleoanthropology for having a gift for

woreda of the Afar Region of Ethiopia (the Woranso-Mille Project). In June 2010, Yohannes published a paper describing Kadanuumuu, one of the specimens his group found in Afar.[6]

The research conducted by Yohannes has been primarily funded by the

American Journal of Physical Anthropology and Nature.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ "WATSON, Prof. James Dewey". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Mangels, John (2004-07). Fossil Hunter Transcripts. The Plain Dealer, July 2004. Retrieved on 2014-09-12 from http://www.cleveland.com/sundaymag/plaindealer/index.ssf?/sundaymag/more/fossil04.html.
  3. ^ "Leading paleoanthropologist to helm Institute of Human Origins | Institute of Human Origins". iho.asu.edu. Archived from the original on 2021-04-20.
  4. ^ "Curriculum Vitae Yohannes Haile-Selassie Ambaye" (PDF). Cleveland Museum of Natural History. 2015.
  5. ProQuest 304683965. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help
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  6. ^ Rex Dalton (2010-06-20). "Africa's next top hominid:Ancient human relative could walk upright". Nature.
  7. ^ "The Leakey Foundation |". www.leakeyfoundation.org. Retrieved 2017-10-25.
  8. PMID 19918995
    .
  9. S2CID 4455029
    . "New species from Ethiopia further expands Middle Pliocene hominin diversity"

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