Zeresenay Alemseged

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Zeresenay Alemseged (born 4 June 1969 in Axum, Ethiopia) is an Ethopian paleoanthropologist who discovered the 3.3 million year old girl Selam in Ethiopia. He is currently a researcher at the Department of Human Evolution of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.

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  • National Geographic Society (pending)
  • National Geographic Society (2003)
  • National Geographic Society (2002)
  • The Leakey Foundation(2001)
  • National Geographic Society (2001)
  • Institute of Human Origins (2000)
  • Centre National de la Recherches Scientifique (1999)
  • French Center for Ethiopian Studies (2000, 2001)
  • Collège de France (1998)

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