Giday WoldeGabriel
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Giday WoldeGabriel is an Ethiopian geologist
at Los Alamos National Laboratory
, who co-discovered human skeletal remains at Herto Bouri, Ethiopia
that revealed a transition into modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens). The specimen was called Homo sapiens idaltu
.
Geologist
A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter that constitutes the Earth as well as the processes and history that has shaped it. Geologists usually engage in studying geology. Geologists, studying more of an applied science than a theoretical one, must approach Geology using...
at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory, managed and operated by Los Alamos National Security , located in Los Alamos, New Mexico...
, who co-discovered human skeletal remains at Herto Bouri, Ethiopia
Ethiopia
Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...
that revealed a transition into modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens). The specimen was called Homo sapiens idaltu
Homo sapiens idaltu
Homo sapiens idaltu is an extinct subspecies of Homo sapiens that lived almost 160,000 years ago in Pleistocene Africa. is from the Saho-Afar word meaning "elder or first born"....
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