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Currently, Zeresenay Alemseged is 55 years, 3 months and 4 days old. Zeresenay Alemseged will celebrate 56rd birthday on a Wednesday 4th of June 2025. Below we countdown to Zeresenay Alemseged upcoming birthday.
Popular As | Zeresenay Alemseged |
Occupation | Paleontologist |
Age | 55 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Gemini |
Born | June 4, 1969 (Ethiopia) |
Birthday | June 4 |
Town/City | Ethiopia |
Nationality | Ethiopia |
Zeresenay Alemseged’s zodiac sign is Gemini. According to astrologers, Gemini is expressive and quick-witted, it represents two different personalities in one and you will never be sure which one you will face. They are sociable, communicative and ready for fun, with a tendency to suddenly get serious, thoughtful and restless. They are fascinated with the world itself, extremely curious, with a constant feeling that there is not enough time to experience everything they want to see.
Zeresenay Alemseged was born in the Year of the Rooster. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Rooster are practical, resourceful, observant, analytical, straightforward, trusting, honest, perfectionists, neat and conservative. Compatible with Ox or Snake.
Paleoanthropologist and Chair of the Anthropology Department at the California Academy of Sciences who is known for discovering "Lucy's child", which is the almost-complete fossilized remains of a 3.3 million year old child. His discovery was a watershed moment in our understanding of human and pre-human evolution.
He was initially a geologist and worked with the National Museum of Ethiopia’s Paleoanthropology Laboratory after graduating from Ethiopia's Addis Ababa University in 1990.
He founded the Dikika Research Project in 1999, an organization that contributed much to the study of paleoanthropology beyond the discovery of Selam.
His family was residing in Axum, Ethiopia, when he was born; one of UNESCO's World Heritage Sites.
His discovery of Selam, the world's oldest child, was seen as more proof in favor of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.