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Phillip V. Tobias was born in Durban, Natal, South Africa, in 1925 (*1925 - †2012). He attended the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, graduating in 1946 in Histology and Physiology and obtaining a Ph.D. degree in 1953. He then went to Cambridge in England and later to several Universities in the United States to pursue postdoctoral studies. Since 1956 he has worked continuously at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he was appointed Head of the Department of Anatomy in 1959 and is, at present, active as an Honorary Professor in Palaeo-anthropology and in Zoology.
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