Zeresenay Alemseged

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Full Name	Zeresenay Alemseged
Occupation	Paleontologist
Date Of Birth	Jun 4, 1969(1969-06-04)
Age	55
Birthplace	Axum
Country	Ethiopia
Birth City	Tigray Region
Horoscope	Gemini

Zeresenay Alemseged Biography

Zeresenay Alemseged is one of the most popular and richest Paleontologist who was born on June 4, 1969 in Axum, Tigray Region, Ethiopia. Paleoanthropologist, Chair of the Anthropology Department of the California Academy of Sciences. He is best known for finding “Lucy’s Child”, which is almost-complete fossilized remains of an approximately 3.3 million- year-old child. His discovery was a turning point in our understanding human and pre-human evolutionary history.

Seam, the oldest child in the world, was discovered by His discovery of Selam, the world’s oldest child, was seen as more proof in favor of Charles Darwin‘s theory of evolution. . This was considered more evidence for his theory of evolution.

Zeresenay began his professional career as a geologist. After graduating with a B.Sc. in Geology from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia in 1990, he began working as a Junior Geologist in the National Museum of Ethiopia’s Paleoanthropology Laboratory.

After obtaining a French language diploma in 1993, from the International Language School in Vichy, France, he began a M.Sc. program in the Institut des sciences de l’évolution at the University of Montpellier II in France. He completed this program in 1994 and earned a Ph.D. in paleoanthropology through the Laboratory of Paleontology at Pierre and Marie Curie University and the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris in 1998.

His family lived in Axum (Ethiopia) when he was born. This is one of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites.

Zeresenay Alemseged Net Worth

Zeresenay Alemseged is one of the richest Paleontologist from Ethiopia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Zeresenay Alemseged 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

After graduating from Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia in 1990, he was initially a geologist. He then worked for the National Museum of Ethiopia’s Paleoanthropology Laboratory.

In 1999, he founded the Dikika Research Project. This organization contributed significantly to paleoanthropology research beyond the discovery Selam.

Zeresenay (Zeray) Alemseged (born 4 June 1969) is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist and was Chair of the Anthropology Department at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, United States. He recently joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. He is best known for his discovery, on December 10, 2000, of Selam, also referred to as “Lucy’s child”, the almost-complete fossilized remains of a 3.3 million-year-old child of the species Australopithecus afarensis. The “world’s oldest child”, she is the most complete skeleton of a human ancestor discovered to date. Selam represents a milestone in our understanding of human and pre-human evolution and contributes significantly to our understanding of the biology and childhood of early species in the human lineage; a subject about which we have very little information. Alemseged discovered Selam while working with the Dikika Research Project (DRP), a multi-national research project, which he both initiated in 1999 and leads. The DRP has thus far made many important paleoanthropological discoveries and returns to the field each year to conduct further important research. Alemseged’s specific research centers on the discovery and interpretation of hominin fossil remains and their environments, with emphasis on fieldwork designed to acquire new data on early hominin skeletal biology, environmental context, and behavior.

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The EAAPP
Zeresenay is the Vice Chairperson of the East African Association of Paleontologists and Paleoanthropologists (the EAAPP), which he co-founded along with Chairperson Dr. Emma Mbua. The EAAPP was officially launched in Kenya on July 18, 2005, and is the first organization of its kind in this region. Members of the EAAPP meet biannually to report on their research findings and address issues such as policy regarding research requirements, collections management, and fieldwork ethics. Though the research area is limited to East Africa, the researchers are a diverse group made up of scientists and students from Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa, Japan, Europe and the Americas.

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Zeresenay Ranked on the list of most popular Paleontologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ethiopia. Zeresenay Alemseged celebrates birthday on June 4 of every year.

Zeresenay and the DRP return to the Dikika field site every fall. The team’s research during these field seasons has contributed significantly to the Academy’s research on human origins and has added valuable data to the CAS Anthropological collection. In addition to Zeresenay’s anthropological work in Africa, the Academy sponsors a number of different African projects led by researchers in varied disciplines. Dr. Robert C. Drewes, Curator of Herpetology, leads an annual expedition to the Gulf of Guinea Islands (Principe, Sao Tome and Annobon), to study the region’s amphibian fauna. Dr. Frank Almeda, Chairman and Senior Curator of Botany, studies the vascular plants and lichens of the rainforests of southern Madagascar, and members of the Invertebrate Zoology and Geology Department have conducted field work in both Madagascar and South Africa. Additionally, in 2007, Dr. Galen Rathbun and Dr. Jack Dumbacher, of the Ornithology and Mammalogy Department, led a collecting expedition to the Namibian desert. This multidisciplinary approach to the biogeography of the region allows the California Academy of Sciences to study the full spectrum of Africa’s natural history and its vital role as the birthplace of mankind.

What is Dr Zeresenay Alemseged?

Dr. Zeresenay “Zeray” Alemseged studies the origin and evolution of early human ancestors, and the environmental factors that influence their evolution.

WHO IS DR Zeray alemseged?

Professor Zeray Alemseged is a paleoanthropologist in the Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago. His research interests include human evolution and the exploration of the factors that shaped the evolution of humans and extinct ancestral species.

How was Selam dated?

Although she has often been nicknamed Lucy’s baby, the specimen has been dated at 3.3 million years ago , approximately 120,000 years older than “Lucy” (dated to about 3.18 mya).

Who found Selam?

The fossil, known as “Selam,” is a nearly complete skeleton of a 2½ year-old child discovered in Dikika, Ethiopia in 2000 by Zeresenay (Zeray) Alemseged , professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago and senior author of the new study.

When did Australopithecus afarensis?

Australopithecus afarensis is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived from about 3.9–2.9 million years ago (mya) in the Pliocene of East Africa. The first fossils were discovered in the 1930s, but major fossil finds would not take place until the 1970s.