biography
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| lived:
| (1866–1951)
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| biography:
| Palaeontologist, born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, W Scotland, UK. He studied medicine at Glasgow, and practised in Australia before moving to South Africa in 1897. He was appointed professor of zoology and geology at Victoria College (1903–10), and in 1934 became palaeontologist at the Transvaal Museum, Pretoria. In 1947 he found a partial skeleton of the hominid Australopithecus, including the pelvis, which proved that it had walked upright about 1–2 million years ago. His studies on human ancestry are given in his book Finding the Missing Link (1950). |
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