Martin Pickford | |
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Born | 1943 (age 80–81) |
Citizenship | Kenyan |
Alma mater | Dalhousie University (Bachelor's), University of London (PhD) |
Known for | discovery of Orrorin tugenensis (2001) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Uganda Paleontology Expedition, Collège de France, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, National Museums of Kenya, University of Mainz |
Thesis | Stratigraphy and Palaeoecology of Five Late Cainozoic Formations in the Kenya Rift Valley (1974) |
Martin Pickford (born 1943) is a lecturer in the Chair of Paleoanthropology and Prehistory at the Collège de France[1] and honorary affiliate at the Département Histoire de la Terre in the Muséum national d'Histoire.[2] In 2001, Martin Pickford together with Brigitte Senut and their team discovered Orrorin tugenensis, a hominid primate species dated between 5.8 and 6.2 million years ago and a potential ancestor of the genus Australopithecus.[3]