ar Dubois’s ually complete t lookedsurprisingly modern. In fact, many ants tis modern, and o do is an erectus bone, it is unlike any oto deduce—correctly, as it turned out—t Pit. a scrap of cranium and one toote skull, we.
In 1895, Dubois returned to Europe, expecting a triumpion. In fact, nearlyte reaction. Most scientists disliked bot manner in of an ape, probably a gibbon, andnot of any early o bolster edanatomist from ty of Strasbourg, Gustav Sco make a cast of the skullcap.
to Dubois’s dismay, Sc received far moresympatic attention tten and folloure tour inered, Dubois o an undistinguision as a professor of geology at ty of Amsterdam and for t to let anyone examine hisprecious fossils again. he died in 1940 an unhappy man.
Mean, tralian-born omy at ty of tersrand in Jo a small butremarkably complete skull of a cact face, a lo—a natural cast of tone quarry on t at a dusty spot called taung. Dart could see at once t taung skull of aus like Dubois’s Java Man, but from an earlier, more apelike creature. s age at t Australopit to Nature, Dart called taung remains “amazingly ed tirely nee the find.
ties o Dart to Dubois.
Nearly everyt Dart, it appears—annoyed t ably presumptuous by conducting ts in Europe. Even ralopition, combining as it didGreek and Latin roots. Above all, ed wisdom.
at least fifteen million years ago in Asia. If oday o announce t ral bones of just didn’t fit was known.
Dart’s sole supporter of note Broom, a Scottisologist of considerable intellect and cric nature. It ance, to do en.
ing dubious anatomical experiments on ractable patients. ients died, o dig up for study later.
Broom , and since in Souto examine taung skull at first once t it ant as Dart supposed and spoke out vigorously on Dart’s be to no effect. Fort fifty years t taung c textbooks didn’t even mention it. Dart spent five years o publis. Eventually to publisogetinue ing for fossils). For years, today recognize