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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 .
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 ...
In April 1946 Robinson became the assistant to Robert Broom and he worked with him for four years until Broom's death in 1951. They focused on excavations at the caves of Sterkfontein (where they discovered " Mrs. Ples " a specimen of Australopithecus africanus , in 1947), Swartkrans (which yielded several fossils of Paranthropus robustus and ...
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.
Robert Broom, a Scottish doctor who became a professional paleontologist in 1933 at 67, was a longtime supporter of Dart. Broom discovered fossils of Australopithecus that contributed to the acceptance of Dart's interpretation of the Taung child, as a transitional form between apes and anatomically modern humans.
Robert Broom therefore believed that these hyraxes were eaten by this hominin species, which supposedly killed the hyraxes by tossing stones at them and broke the skulls in the feeding process. [1] Later in 1995, it was noted that the fossil assemblage at Taung resembled prey remains left by large raptors , and a 2006 study of the Taung Child's ...
Over 200 episodes of the show were produced. Guests included Pete Seeger and Josh White; Robert Kimball, Bill Bolcum, Max Morarth and Dan Morgenstern; Donald Bogle and Rosalind Cash; Kurt Vonnegut; Joyce Maynard and Jeff Greenfield; Penelope Gilliat, Herman Weinberg and Howard Koch; Günter Grass; and Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.
Robert Broom Jr. (born January 18, 1961) is an American jazz guitarist, composer, and educator. He was born and raised in New York City, then moved to Chicago, which has been his home town since 1984. [1] He performs and records with The Bobby Broom Trio and his organ group, The Bobby Broom Organi-Sation. While versed in the traditional jazz ...