REBROADCAST: Nature PastCast - February 1925

Published: Feb. 10, 2017, 6 a.m.

b'Paleontologist Raymond Dart had newly arrived in South Africa when he came across a fossil that would change his life and his science. It was the face, jaw and brain cast of an extinct primate \\u2013 not quite ape and not quite human. The paleontology community shunned the find, and proving that the creature was a human relative took decades. [Originally aired 26/02/2014]


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