This Australian scientist reaffirmed Darwin's theories on the origin of man when, amongst a group of fossil baboon skulls, he discovered the skull of a previously unknown hominid.
This Australian scientist reaffirmed Darwin's theories on the origin of man when, amongst a group of fossil baboon skulls, he discovered the skull of a previously unknown hominid. Calling this skull the Taung child, after its discovery site in South Africa, he went to assert that Africa was, in fact, the cradle of evolution. Conventional wisdom of the time held that humans had evolved in Eurasia; thus, in 1924 this scientist's discoveries were largely ignored. However, later hominid discoveries by Robert Broom and Mary Leakey would confirm his theories. FTP, identify the anthropologist who first identified Australopithecus africanus.
This Australian scientist reaffirmed Darwin's theories on the origin of man when, amongst a group of fossil baboon skulls, he discovered the skull of a previously unknown hominid.
Raymond {Dart}