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Robert Broom FRS [1] FRSE (30 November 1866 – 6 April 1951) was a British- South African medical doctor and palaeontologist. [2] He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow .
In 1938, the site was brought to the attention of Robert Broom by a local schoolboy named Gert Terrblanche who had discovered several hominin teeth. The teeth formed part of a skull that would become the holotype of Paranthropus robustus. Broom began excavations at the site that would continue until approximately 1947 and would result in the ...
Robert Broom and John T. Robinson Mrs. Ples is the popular nickname for the most complete skull of an Australopithecus africanus ever found in South Africa . Many Australopithecus fossils have been found near Sterkfontein , about 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Johannesburg , in a region of Gauteng (part of the old Transvaal ) now designated ...
For a few weeks he was visiting professor, Wayne County Medical School, Detroit and Distinguished Lecturer at Dalhousie Medical School. In 1956 he first appeared with Dr. Arthur Kelly, Canadian Medical Association on a television program. This was the beginning of a 25-year career in radio, television and the daily press, which covered many ...
Dr. Robert Lufkin says he taught lies in medical school about weight loss, diet, high blood pressure, and statins to prevent heart disease. Experts respond.
On those weekends, Robert watched and learned as broom makers weighed out 12 ounces of the long fibers, then bundled them with tin-coated wire and spun them into shape with a pedal machine.
Later in 1948, Robert Broom identified the first hominid remains from Swartkrans cave. In 1954, C. K. Brain began working at sites in the Cradle, including Cooper's Cave. He then initiated his three-decade work at Swartkrans cave, which resulted in the recovery of the second-largest sample of hominid remains from the Cradle.
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