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Emma Mbua
Emma Mbua (born 1961) is a Kenyan Paleoanthropologist and a curator, who is the first East African woman to work as a paleoanthropologist. Career Mbua was born in 1961. Her career began in 1979 when she began work at the National Museums of Kenya. She applied for a role there after finishing her A-Levels at Lugulu High School.Thang'wa, Josephine.The evolution of East Africa's first African woman palaeoanthropologist. ''Kenya Past and Present'' 32.1 (2001): 72-75. While at the National Museum of Kenya, Emma was stationed at Paleontology, palaeontology laboratory for two years before she was moved to the human origins section. In 1985, she began an MPhil qualification at the University of Liverpool in 1993. She completed her doctorate at the University of Hamburg with Günter Bräuer in 2001, in which she studied the transition of homo erectus to modern humans. She is the first woman from East Africa to have a career as a paleoanthropologist. Mbua has worked at a number of differe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paleoanthropologist
Paleoanthropology or paleo-anthropology is a branch of paleontology and anthropology which seeks to understand the early development of anatomically modern humans, a process known as hominization, through the reconstruction of evolutionary kinship lines within the family Hominidae, working from biological evidence (such as petrified skeletal remains, bone fragments, footprints) and cultural evidence (such as stone tools, artifacts, and settlement localities). The field draws from and combines primatology, paleontology, biological anthropology, and cultural anthropology. As technologies and methods advance, genetics plays an ever-increasing role, in particular to examine and compare DNA structure as a vital tool of research of the evolutionary kinship lines of related species and genera. Etymology The term paleoanthropology derives from Greek palaiós (παλαιός) "old, ancient", ánthrōpos (ἄνθρωπος) "man, human" and the suffix -logía (-λογία) "study of". Hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
