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WHEN, in 1924, Dart of Johannesburg discovered a type of fossil anthropoid more manlike than the chimpanzee or gorilla, a new chapter was opened in the early history of man. Dart named his fossil form Australopithecus africanus, and he regarded it as somewhat intermediate between the living anthropoids and man, and probably near to the anthropoid from which man arose. The first account of the discovery was given in NATURE of February 7, 1925.
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BROOM, R. THE ORIGIN OF MAN. Nature 148, 10–14 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148010a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148010a0