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David Pilbeam [b. 1940]

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Definition: David Pilbeam is an American paleontologist currently at Harvard University, who has investigated very early human ancestors such as Proconsul in Kenya, Sivapithecus in the Potwar Plateau of Pakistan, and a newly identified hominid from Chad, Sahelanthropus tchadensis.

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