--(born October 5, 1945)--> is a British-born American paleoanthropologist and a curator emeritus with the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York.
In 1994 while searching through museum boxes labelled 'Cercopithecoids' containing fossil fragments, paleoanthropologist Ronald J. Clarke identified several that were unmistakably hominin.
Maurice Taieb, (born 1935) is a French geologist and paleoanthropologist who discovered the Hadar formation, recognised its potential importance to paleoanthropology and founded the International Afar Research Expedition (IARE).
Its first Chairman was Professor Phillip V. Tobias, the noted paleoanthropologist and long-time opponent of apartheid.
He was the father of the Georgian paleoanthropologist David Lordkipanidze.
Ronald J. Clarke, paleoanthropologist most notable for the discovery of "Little Foot"