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Phillip Vallentine Tobias (1925–2012)

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Palaeoanthropologist who pioneered description of African hominins.

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Bernard Wood is the University Professor of Human Origins at George Washington University, Washington DC 20052, USA. Tobias became his unofficial mentor after Wood visited Wits to study fossil craniums in 1972. His research builds on Tobias's seminal work on the Olduvai hominin fossil record.,
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Wood, B. Phillip Vallentine Tobias (1925–2012). Nature 487, 40 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/487040a

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Published: 04 July 2012
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