but from an earlier, more apelike creature. s age at t Australopit to Nature, Dart called taung remains “amazingly ed tirely nee the find.

    ties o Dart to Dubois.

    Nearly everyt  Dart, it appears—annoyed t ably presumptuous by conducting ts in Europe. Even ralopition, combining as it didGreek and Latin roots. Above all, ed wisdom.

    at least fifteen million years ago in Asia. If  oday o announce t ral bones of just didn’t fit  was known.

    Dart’s sole supporter of note  Broom, a Scottisologist of considerable intellect and cric nature. It ance, to do en.

    ing dubious anatomical experiments on ractable patients. ients died, o dig up for study later.

    Broom , and since  in Souto examine taung skull at first  once t it ant as Dart supposed and spoke out vigorously on Dart’s be to no effect. Fort fifty years t taung c textbooks didn’t even mention it. Dart spent five years o publis. Eventually  to publisogetinue ing for fossils). For years, today recognized as one oftreasures of ant as a paper on a colleague’s desk.

    At time Dart made  in 1924, only four categories of ancient als, and Dubois’s JavaMan—but all t  to change in a very big way.

    First, in Ced Canadian amateur named Davidson Black began to poke around ata place, Dragon Bone  was locally famous as a ing ground for old bones.

    Unfortunately, ratudy, tomake medicines. e can only guess us bones ended up as asort of C of bicarbonate of soda. te ime Black arrived, but  alo