Editing Raymond Dart (section)

{{Short description|Australian anatomist and anthropologist}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name              = Raymond Arthur Dart
| image             = Raymond Dart- Smithsonian Institution Archives - SIA-SIA2008-0845 (cropped).jpg
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| caption           = Dart in 1968
| birth_date        = {{birth date|df=yes|1893|2|4}}
| birth_place       = [[Brisbane, Queensland]]
| death_date        = {{death date and age|df=yes|1988|11|22|1893|2|4}}
| death_place       = [[Johannesburg]], South Africa
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| nationality       = [[Australia]]n
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| field             = [[Anatomist]], [[anthropology|anthropologist]]
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| alma_mater        = [[Ipswich Grammar School]], [[University of Queensland]], [[University of Sydney]]
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| known_for         = ''[[Australopithecus africanus]]''
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| prizes            = [[Viking Fund Medal]] (1957)
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| spouse            = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Dora Tyree|1921|1934|end=divorced}}
* {{marriage|Marjorie Frew|1936}}
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'''Raymond Arthur Dart''' (4 February 1893 &ndash; 22 November 1988) was an Australian [[anatomist]] and [[anthropology|anthropologist]], best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil found of ''[[Australopithecus africanus]]'', an [[Extinction|extinct]] [[hominin]] closely related to humans, at [[Taung]] in the North of [[South Africa]] in the Northwest province.