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Also Known As Raymond Arthur Dart
Born February 4, 1893 • Australia
Died November 22, 1988 (aged 95) • Johannesburg • South Africa
Subjects Of Study Australopithecus africanus • mosaic evolution • Taung child
W.E.H. Stanner
Australian anthropologist
Lee Berger
South African paleoanthropologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
Daniel Lieberman
Daniel Lieberman
American paleoanthropologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
Meave G. Leakey
Meave G. Leakey
British paleoanthropologist
Kathy Reichs
American author and forensic anthropologist
Aleš Hrdlička
American anthropologist
Franz Weidenreich
German anthropologist
Broca, Paul
Paul Broca
French anthropologist and pathologist
Edward W. Gifford
American anthropologist
Blumenbach, detail of a lithograph, 1892
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German anthropologist
Manuel Gamio
Mexican anthropologist and sociologist
Robert J. Braidwood
American anthropologist
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Francis Galton
Francis Galton
British scientist
Karl Ernst, Ritter von Baer
Karl Ernst von Baer
Prussian-Estonian embryologist
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
French philosopher and paleontologist
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
American anthropologist
Paul Farmer
American anthropologist and epidemiologist