Robert Broom
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Robert Broom FRS FRSE was a British-South African medical doctor and palaeontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow.
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Bust of Robert Broom and Mrs. Ples
Memorial plaque at the Sterkfontein caves
Mrs Ples
Mrs. Ples
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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 kil
Robert Broom
…many mammalian fossils from these caves he identified several hominin fossils, the most complete of which was an australopithecine skull, nicknamed Mrs Ples, and a partial skeleton that indicated that australopithecines walked upright. Broom died in Pretoria, South Africa in 1951…
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Australopithecus africanus at Ugandan National Museum