Paleoanthropologists combine the methods of paleontologists and biological anthropologists into one comprehensive study. Paleontology is the study of fossil evidence of ancient creatures, and biological anthropology is the inter-disciplinary study of physical changes in humans. Therefore, a paleoanthropologist is a scientist who studies fossil evidence of ancient human beings. Paleoanthropologists have played a major role in discovering what we know about evolution today.
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