Among Dart’s other crimes were failing to follow proper research protocol and using “a ‘barbarous’ combination of Latin and Greek in naming the specimen Australopithecus.” After this professional drubbing, Dart suffered a nervous breakdown, and the Taung skull languished for years as a paperweight on the desk of a colleague. Yet the conservative scientific establishment savaged him, arguing that he had misidentified a mere primate.

With its large cranium but otherwise apelike features, Piltdown Man supposedly represented the missing link between primates and humans, proving that humans came out of Asia and not Africa.ĭart disagreed, and he enthusiastically published his findings. Confirming this belief was the 1912 discovery of Piltdown Man, a skull found in a gravel pit in Piltdown, England. But Dart’s finding contradicted prevailing scientific opinion, which held that the evolution of a large brain preceded other human adaptations, such as walking. Despite its small brain size, the Taung Child, as the skull was to be named, had distinctively human features, including signs that its owner walked upright. UK-based fans can watch the latest series on Disney Plus.In 1924, anatomy professor Raymond Dart came across an unusual skull that a mining company had inadvertently blasted out of a hillside in a South African village. Grey's Anatomy season 19 continues on Thursday, May 11 at 9 pm ET on ABC. Prequel series Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story has just landed and immediately claimed the top spot in the Netflix Top 10, and we've got Bridgerton season 3 (and beyond) to look forward to later down the line. With Grey's Anatomy's future looking bright, it's good to see Rhimes' Netflix period drama franchise, Bridgerton, performing just as well.

I don't think of her as gone from the show, she's still doing the voiceovers, she's still there', Rhimes concluded. 'It was a little bit of a heartbreaking moment, but it was also a moment - for me -that she's not gone because she's coming back. Of course, Ellen Pompeo hasn't left the show behind entirely, as she's still on board to provide voiceovers for the show, which sounds like it made her departure less difficult. We've always been having those discussions because I've always wanted her to be excited and invested and enjoying herself as much as she was at the beginning.' 'Ellen's an amazing person and she and I have been having conversations the whole time, discussing when it was time and what it was feeling like.

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