 |
 Davidson Black
was the first to describe what is popularly known
as Peking Man, the first anthropoid to be
described as "a thinking being, standing
erect, dating to the beginning of the Ice
Age." |
 Raymond Arthur Dart
was the first to describe Australopithecus
africanus, and to suggest that it
represented a direct link in the evolutionary
chain leading to present-day humans. |
 Eugene
DuBois went to the Dutch East Indies
in 1887 specifically to look for fossils of human
ancestors. His search was rewarded by the
discovery of fossils which he ultimately named Pithecanthropus
erectus ("Java Man"). |
 Louis Seymour Bazett
Leakey gained international acclaim
for his excavations in the Olduvai Gorge
(Tanzania), which resulted in the discovery of Homo
habilis, the first human ancestor ever found
associated with tools. |
