Raymond Arthur Dart

Date: 4 January, 1893

Anthropologist, Professor Raymond Arthur Dart, is born in Brisbane, Australia. Raymond Dart discovered the Taung Child skull fossil near Taung in North West, South Africa.In 1922, Dart became the head of the newly established department of anatomy at Wits University, South Africa.

For more on human evolution and Dart's role in discovering its course, click here.

For more information on Raymond Dart, go to:

www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/ biography/abcde/dart_raymond.html

www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/rdart.html

http://www.hi.is/~joner/eaps/wh_dart.htm

References

Phillip T. 'Dart, Raymond Arthur (1893-1988)' [online] Available at www.adb.anu.edu.au