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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.
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.
Raymond Arthur Dart | South African History Online. Synopsis: Discovered the Taung child skull fossil, the first early hominid fossil. First Name: Raymond. Last Name: Dart. Date of Birth: 4 February 1893. Location of Birth: Toowong, Brisbane, Australia. Date of Death: 22 November 1988. Location of Death: Reno, Nevada, USA. Gender: male.
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...
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 ...
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.
