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 ...
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A doctor and surgeon by training, Raymond A. Dart was drawn into the field of anthropology early in his career, abandoning plans to become a medical missionary in China. Shortly after beginning his ac...
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A doctor and surgeon by training, Raymond A. Dart discovered the first fossils of Australopithecus africanus, or "southern ape of Africa," forging the modern era of paleoanthropology.Raymond Arthur Da...
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