Martin Pickford
Martin Pickford | |
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Martin Pickford, 2011 at Naturmuseum Senckenberg (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), identifying fossil teeth of Suidae from Indonesia, excavated from the stratum of Homo erectus from Sangiran | |
| Born | 1943 (age 81–82) |
| 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 and honourary affiliate at the Département Histoire de la Terre in the Muséum national d'Histoire. 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.