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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.
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.
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 ...
Raymond A. Dart 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. In 1924, at a time when Asia was believed to have been the cradle of mankind, Dart’s.
Raymond Arthur Dart. 1893-1988. Australian paleontologist and anthropologist whose discoveries of early hominid fossils led to developments in evolutionary theory. In 1924, while working as a professor of anatomy at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, Dart heard of a fossilized baboon skull found at a nearby limestone ...
Jul 14, 2010 · On December 23, 1924, the Australian anatomist Raymond Dart chipped away the last bit of rock encasing the skull of a small fossil primate.
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Raymond Arthur Dart was born in Queensland, Australia, in 1893, the fifth of nine children to parents who lived on a bush farm raising cattle. He won a scholarship to the University of Queensland in Brisbane where he excelled, winning other prizes and scholarships and going on to do medical studies at Sydney.
