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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 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.
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 (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.
Dart moved to South Africa in 1922 and later made enormous contributions globally to the fields of physical anthropology and paleontology. In 1924 Raymond Dart made the discovery that would make him famous.
With fossils of adult ape-men now available for study, Dart's concept of Australopithecus as an African ancestor of later humans was generally accepted. Heartened and relieved, Dart reentered the emotional field of hominid paleontology and started a long-term investigation of the Makapansgat Limeworks cave, 250 kilometers northeast of Johannesburg.
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 ...
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...
Jan 25, 2024 · Lee Berger of Homo naledi fame says Raymond Dart made "the most important discovery in paleoanthropology" of all time. In 1924, a university professor in South Africa, Dart opened up a crate...
Nov 23, 1988 · Raymond A. Dart, the anatomist who in 1924 revolutionized the study of human origins with his discovery of an early human fossil in Africa, died yesterday in Johannesburg. He was 95 years old.
