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Australian anatomist and anthropologist

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 extincthominin closely related to humans, at Taung in the North of South Africa in the Northwest province.

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Early life

Raymond Dart was born in Toowong, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, the fifth of nine children and son of a farmer and tradesman. His birth occurred during the 1893 flood, which filled his parents' home and shop in Toowong.

The family moved alternately between their country property near Laidley and their shop in Toowong.^[1] The young Dart attended Toowong State School, Blenheim State School and earned a scholarship to Ipswich Grammar School from 1906 to 1909.

Dart considered becoming a medical missionary to China and wished to study medicine at the Univer