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Finally, Dart did find someone who agreed with him, Robert Broom, who resided in Africa. During his first visit to Dart Broom knelt in front of the skull of Taung to honour the fossil. Broom was a physician, had studied fossils of marsupials in Australia and was well-known worldwide as an expert in the field of mammallike reptiles. He investigated the Taung skull as well and came to the conclusion that the interpretation of Dart had been correct. Broom was determined to find prove which would confirm Dart's discovery. He started a search for an adult version of the child of Taung. Thus, the hunt for the Australopithecus africanus proceeded unabatedly. Together with some of Dart's students Broom visited the limestone sediments of Sterkfontein in the neighbourhood of his residential town. They soon found fragments of fossils. On the age of eighty, after more than ten years of persistent searching, Broom found a complete skull. It had the small brainvolume of a man-ape, but walked like a human being. Dart's skull of Taung no longer stood on its own. The awareness of it not just being a funny, little skull, but belonging to a complete community, a population, penetrated. New evidence accumulated and the tide turned.
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