ONE day in the summer of 1924, an anthropologist named Raymond Dart made an incredible discovery – and drew a conclusion from it about human nature that would mislead us for a century. Dart was ...

For Australopithecus africanus, on the other hand, Raymond Dart assumed a height of 1.25 meters and a weight of 25 to 30 kilograms. Early man was small and weak.

In 1925, Australian anthropologist Raymond Dart first identified Australopithecus africanus as a human relative, a bold and controversial claim at the time.

In a groundbreaking study published in the journal Nature on Feb. 7, 1925, Australian anthropologist Raymond Dart boldly suggested that A. africanus was a human relative, making it the first ...

Announcing the fossil in the journal Nature in early 1925, Dart declared it a new genus and species of human ancestor: Australopithecus africanus, the southern ape from Africa.

Australian-born anatomist and paleoanthropologist Raymond Arthur Dart (1893-1988), a professor and dean at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1925-1943, was best known for ...

It described a fossil, found in a lime mine in Taung in South Africa, which became known as the Taung child skull. The paper’s author, an Australian-born anatomist called Raymond Dart, argued that the ...

In 1924 an Australian anthropologist and anatomist, Raymond Dart, acquired a block of calcified sediment from a limestone quarry in South Africa. He painstakingly removed a fossil skull from this ...

In 1924 Dart could not say exactly how old it was, but he announced that it belonged to a new species which he named Australopithecus africanus. It was the first evidence that confirmed British ...

A decade later, Raymond Dart — who first described the Australopithecus africanus fossil known as the Taung Child — encountered evidence of past African cultures such as the Nyanga terrace ...

Our ancestors, Dart concluded, were cannibalistic killers. He argued that Australopithecus africanus represented a “predatory transition” in which our ancestors evolved from eating plants and ...

Dart, Raymond A (Raymond Arthur) 1893- University of the Witwatersrand Summary Australian-born anatomist and paleoanthropologist Raymond Arthur Dart (1893-1988), a professor and dean at the University ...