Raymond Dart, a 35-year veteran in the shipbuilding industry, was one of hundreds of workers crammed under a tent at the Halifax Shipyard listening to the announcement made by Francois Guimont ...

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 ...

The anatomist Raymond Dart saw the "child of Taung" as the missing link in the history of human development. But at first it was met with criticism. The skull of the child of Taung.

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 ...

Robin Derricourt is a Visiting Fellow in History at the University of New South Wales, as well as a writer and publisher. In this talk he tells the story of Australian scientist Raymond Dart who's ...

One hundred years ago, a paper was published in the journal Nature that would radically shift our understandings of the origins of humanity. It described a fossil, found in a lime mine in Taung in ...

In 1924, quarry workers near Taung brought an unusual skull to anatomist Raymond Dart. The skull didn’t match the dimensions of an ape or a modern human.

This 2.4-million-year-old skull (shown here with its champion Raymond Dart) upended the study of human origins despite initial rejection by the scientific community. The photograph of Raymond Dart ...

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 ...

In 1925 Raymond Dart, an anthropologist working in South Africa, wrote about his discovery of a child Australopithecus africanus.

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.