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    Robert Broom FRS FRSE (30 November 1866 – 6 April 1951) was a British- South African medical doctor and palaeontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner...
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    A broom (also known as a broomstick) is a cleaning tool consisting of usually stiff fibers (often made of materials such as plastic, hair, or corn husks)...
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    Witch's broom or witches' broom is a deformity in a woody plant, typically a tree, where the natural structure of the plant is changed. A dense mass of...
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    Australopithecus africanus (nicknamed "Mrs. Ples"), found in 1947 by Robert Broom and John T. Robinson. The find helped corroborate the 1924 discovery...
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    Robert Broom Jr. (born January 18, 1961) is an American jazz guitarist, composer, and educator. He was born and raised in New York City, then moved to...
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    Nature, announcing his support of Dart and Broom's research. He stated "the evidence submitted by Dr. Robert Broom and Professor Dart was right and I was...
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    Heritage Site. Mrs. Ples was discovered by Robert Broom and John T. Robinson on April 18, 1947. Because of Broom's use of dynamite and pickaxe while excavating...
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    Three Rivers Press (2009). ISBN 978-0-307-39640-2 Jones, Steve; Martin, Robert D.; Pilbeam, David R, eds. (1994). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human evolution...
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    Alopecognathus (category Taxa named by Robert Broom)
    Pristerognathus vanderbyli Broom, 1925 Pristerognathus vanwyki Broom, 1925 Alopecideops gracilis Broom, 1932 Cynariognathus gallowayi Broom, 1936 Cynariognathus...
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  • "Dust My Broom" is a blues song originally recorded as "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" by American blues artist Robert Johnson in 1936. It is a solo performance...
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  • Broom (1911–2009), American sociologist Mark Broom (born 1971), British techno musician and DJ Neil Broom (born 1983), New Zealand cricketer Robert Broom...
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    Therapsida (category Taxa named by Robert Broom)
    evolutionary history of life Vertebrate paleontology Greek: 'beast-arch' Broom, R. (1905). "On the use of the term Anomodontia". Records of the Albany...
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  • single canine tooth was excavated in Sterkfontein cave in South Africa by Robert Broom in the 1940s. It is thought to be one of the oldest known Panthera species...
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    Moschops (category Taxa named by Robert Broom)
    in the Ecca Group (part of the Karoo Supergroup) of South Africa by Robert Broom. As the geological horizon was dubious, it was referred to have originated...
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  • geographic range of early hominins. Robert Ardrey (1908–1980) Lee Berger (1965–) Davidson Black (1884–1934) Robert Broom (1866–1951) Michel Brunet (1940–)...
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    Africa. The genus was named in 1903 by the South African paleontologist Robert Broom. The genus Chasmatosaurus is a junior synonym of Proterosuchus. Proterosuchus...
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    Arnognathus (category Taxa named by Robert Broom)
    Arnognathus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids. Paleontology portal List of therapsids The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's...
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    named Cynodontia in 1861, which he assigned to Anomodontia as a family. Robert Broom (1913) reranked Cynodontia as an infraorder, since retained by others...
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  • The Broom of the System is the first novel by the American writer David Foster Wallace, published in 1987. Wallace submitted the novel as one of two undergraduate...
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    Erythrosuchus (category Taxa named by Robert Broom)
    specimens, most of which are fragmentary. The holotype, described by Robert Broom in 1905 and known as SAM 905, is poorly preserved. Only small pieces...
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    differences in population demography of Mountain Pygmy-possums Burramys parvus Broom (1986–1998)". Biological Conservation. 102 (3): 309–323. doi:10.1016/S0006-3207(01)00105-7...
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    The family Tritheledontidae was named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1912. The family is often misspelled "Trithelodontidae". It is possible...
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  • South African hominin paleontologist. His most famous discovery (with Robert Broom) was the nearly complete fossil skull of the hominin species Australopithecus...
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    believed to be between 1.9 and 2.1 million years old. Noted paleontologist Robert Broom was a frequent digger. He was followed by C. K. 'Bob' Brain, whose excavations...
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    Swartkrans Cave, South Africa, by South African paleoanthropologists Robert Broom and John Talbot Robinson, who described it as "Telanthropus capensis"...
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    and achievements Preceded by Arthur Stanley Eddington and Robert Broom Royal Medal (with Robert Muir) 1929 Succeeded by John Edward Marr and Owen Willans...
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  • Equus capensis (category Taxa named by Robert Broom)
    Class: Mammalia Order: Perissodactyla Family: Equidae Genus: Equus Subgenus: Hippotigris Species: †E. capensis Binomial name †Equus capensis Broom, 1909...
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    History. 1: 451–466. Broom, Robert (1905). "On the use of the term Anomodontia". Records of the Albany Museum. 1 (4): 266–269. Broom, Robert (1913). "On the...
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  • Delphaciognathus (category Taxa named by Robert Broom)
    Delphaciognathus is an extinct genus of non-mammalian synapsids. Paleontology portal List of therapsids The main groups of non-mammalian synapsids at Mikko's...
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    "Australopithecidae" in 1929. In 1933, South African palaeoanthropologist Robert Broom suggested moving A. africanus into Hominidae, which at the time contained...
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