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ANTHROPOLOGIST

Raymond Dart

1893 - 1988

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Raymond Arthur Dart (4 February 1893 – 22 November 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil found of Australopithecus africanus, an extinct hominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the Northwest province. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Dart has received more than 218,888 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Raymond Dart is the 27th most popular anthropologist (down from 20th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Australia (down from 51st in 2019) and the most popular Australian Anthropologist.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Raymond Dart ranks 27 out of 69. Before him are Mary Leakey, Richard Leakey, Marvin Harris, Leslie White, Wilhelm Schmidt, and Cheikh Anta Diop. After him are Marc Augé, Marshall Sahlins, Jacques de Morgan, Ann Dunham, Pierre Clastres, and Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Raymond Dart ranks 89. Before him are Bai Chongxi, Clas Thunberg, Alexander Korda, Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz, Nestor Lakoba, and Armand Călinescu. After him are Israel Joshua Singer, Marianne Brandt, William Moulton Marston, Gaston Julia, Miloš Crnjanski, and Rahul Sankrityayan. Among people deceased in 1988, Raymond Dart ranks 65. Before him are Giacinto Scelsi, Vladimír Menšík, Luis Walter Alvarez, Henry Murray, George Uhlenbeck, and Ilona Elek. After him are Antal Doráti, Lev Pontryagin, Andy Gibb, Takeo Miki, Khalil al-Wazir, and Trevor Howard.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Raymond Dart ranks 59 out of 925. Before him are Flea (1962), George Miller (1945), Phil Rudd (1954), Luís Vaz de Torres (1565), Rhonda Byrne (1945), and Harold Holt (1908). After him are David Helfgott (1947), David Bruce (1855), John Newcombe (1944), Cassandra Harris (1948), Edward Cassidy (1924), and Michael Hutchence (1960).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In Australia

Among anthropologists born in Australia, Raymond Dart ranks 1. After him are Bill Mollison (1928) and Fiona Graham (1961).

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