Paranthropus: How did this bizarre, ape-like early hominin survive for so long? – Canada Boosts
P.PLAILLY/E.DAYNES/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY IT ISN’T typically that an esteemed professor units out to research a scientific discovery made by a 15-year-old boy, however in 1938 Robert Broom made an exception. The British-born palaeontologist was keenly conscious that Nineteen Thirties South Africa was gaining a status for its exceptionally primitive-looking hominin fossils. So, when he heard…