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Raymond Dart. Raymond Arthur Dart (4 February 1893 – 22 November 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the Northwest province.
Raymond A. Dart (born February 4, 1893, Toowong, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia—died November 22, 1988, Johannesburg, South Africa) was an Australian-born South African physical anthropologist and paleontologist whose discoveries of fossil hominins (members of the human lineage) led to significant insights into human evolution.
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Nov 24, 1988 · Raymond A. Dart, the esteemed anthropologist whose discovery of the fossilized skull of a young humanoid more than 60 years ago provided a “missing link” between ape and man, is dead.
Oct 29, 2019 · Australian-born Raymond Dart had barely started his job as chair of the anatomy department of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, when he made a momentous discovery ...
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- 2019
This man was Raymond Dart; his insight shows the value of the prepared mind. In 1923, Dart and his wife Dora traveled from Britain to South Africa, where Dart was to take up a new post. He was thirty years old and not enamored of the prospect. He later recalled, "I hated the idea of uprooting myself from what was then the world's center of ...
Raymond Dart. Raymond Arthur Dart (February 4, 1893 – November 22, 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist best known for his discovery of a fossil of Australopithecus at Taung, in Northwestern South Africa. Although he faced rejection by those dominant in the field that believed that humankind first appeared in Asia, his work ...
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Apr 3, 2024 · Raymond Arthur Dart (1893-1988) announced, described, and named the first discovery of an Australopithecine in the February 7, 1925 issue of Nature.The now iconic specimen consisted of a partial fossilized face, jaw, and cast of the interior of the braincase (endocast) of a young child from Taung (then called Taungs), which Dart assigned to a new genus and species (Australopithecus africanus).
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