Raymond Dart
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 36 years ago |
Date of birth | February 4,1893 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Brisbane |
Australia | |
Date of died | November 22,1988 |
Died | Johannesburg |
South Africa | |
Known for | Australopithecus africanus |
Job | Anthropologist |
Archaeologist | |
Anatomist | |
Education | University College London |
The University of Sydney | |
The University of Queensland | |
Ipswich Grammar School | |
Nationality | Australian |
Awards | Viking Fund Medal |
Books | Skill and Poise |
Adventures with the missing link | |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 461620 |
Raymond Dart Life story
Raymond Arthur Dart was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil ever found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the Northwest province.