People of evolution 2

Question 1

Raymond Dart

Answer 1

1893-1988
Aussie
Anatomist and anthropologist
Discovered Taung child which was first to indicate presence of hominins in Africa.
Worked in south Africa and was sent fossils by robert burns young.
Finding were dismissed to start.
Established study of man in africa in 1956.

Question 2

Louis and Mary Leakey

Answer 2

Paleoanthropologists and archaeologists Worked in excavations in Kenya and Tanzania
Found Oldwan tools.
Found boisei
And fossils dating back to 3.75 mya of hominins
Laetoli footprints.

Question 3

Donald Johanson

Answer 3

Present
American
Paleoanthropologist
Founded human evolution institute 1981.
Discovered first Australopithecus afarensis skeleton. Lucy.
Support bipedalism.
Had collections of fossils.
Won national book award for book: lucy - beginnings of mankind.

Question 4

Ian Tattersall

Answer 4

Now
American
Palaeoanthropologist.
Compiled human fossil record.
Published many things.
Curated exhibits

Question 5

Erik Trinkhaus

Answer 5

Now
American
Palaeoanthropologist
Studied neandertals and other Pleistocene humans
Member of national science academy.
Established physical anthropology books.

Question 6

Chris Stringer

Answer 6

Now
British
Palaeoanthropologist
Interested in Neanderthals.
Natural history museum
Out of Africa hypothesis
Accident human occupation project
CBE for understanding human evo.

Question 7

Svante Paabo

Answer 7

Now
Swedish
Paleogeneticist
Sequences neanderthal genome
Founded of department of genetics
Nobel prize.