BROOM, Robert (1866 – 1951)
1866 – 1951
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1938 CE
#7281
The Pleistocene anthropoid apes of South Africa.
Paranthropus robustus, discovered by Broom in Kromdraal, South Africa, in 1938. The species is generally dated from about 2 million to 1.2 million years before present.
1946 CE
#214.1
Pretoria: The South African fossil ape-men. The Australopithecinae. Part I. The occurrence and general structure of the South African ape-men.
With this comprehensive report Broom presented his case to the scientific establishment that Australopithecus probably represented the stock from which mankind had evolved.