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    Miss Ples or Master Ples is also possible. The paleoanthropologist, Prof. Frederick E. Grine, has studied the dental morphology of Mrs./Mr. Ples with...
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  • Ples may refer to the following places: Ples, Bistrica ob Sotli, Slovenia Ples, Moravče, Slovenia Mrs. Ples, the popular nickname for a complete Australopithecus...
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    ancestor.: 289–290  In 1947, the most complete skull was discovered, STS 5 ("Mrs. Ples"). Wider acceptance of A. africanus prompted re-evaluation of Piltdown...
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    a 2.3-million-year-old fossil Australopithecus africanus (nicknamed "Mrs. Ples"), found in 1947 by Robert Broom and John T. Robinson. The find helped...
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    first skull of A. anamensis discovered in 2016 in Afar, Ethiopia. STS 5 (Mrs. Ples), the most complete skull of an A. africanus ever found in South Africa...
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    the most complete of which was an australopithecine skull, nicknamed Mrs Ples, and a partial skeleton that indicated that australopithecines walked upright...
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    (near-man from Transvaal), but it became better known by its nickname, Mrs. Ples. Mrs. Ples is now defined as a member of A. africanus. In 1984, Peter Verhulsel...
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  • director 93. PJ Powers (1960–) musician 94. Mimi Coertse (1932–) musician 95. Mrs Ples (2 million BC) Australopithecus africanus; the oldest hominid skull found...
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    some of the oldest fossils of hominids have been discovered, such as Mrs. Ples and Little Foot. Events in this area were not written down until the 19th...
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    Skull of Mrs. Ples...
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  • fossil skull of the hominin species Australopithecus africanus, known as Mrs. Ples. Robinson was born in Elliot, South Africa to Theodore Clement Robinson...
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    back at least 2 million years to the earliest hominin species (such as Mrs Ples) in and around the Sterkfontein Caves, which lie at the Cradle of Humankind...
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    Karoo). The most complete skull of an Australopithecus africanus specimen, Mrs Ples, is on display in the museum. In addition, the Transvaal museum houses...
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    2020. Saul, John S. (2014). South Africa – the present as history : from Mrs. Ples to Mandela & Marikana. Woodbridge, Suffolk. ISBN 9781847010926. OCLC 872681428...
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  • human evolution. The sites at Sterkfontein (A. africanus skull, known as Mrs. Ples, pictured), Swartkrans, and Kromdraai, collectively named the Cradle of...
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    1991 Malawi Tyson Msiska, Timothy Bromage, Friedemann Schrenk STS 5 (Mrs. Ples) (STS 14) 2.07 Australopithecus africanus 1947 Sterkfontein, South Africa...
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    (1961–1976) Hector Pieterson, poster victim of the Soweto riots (1964–1976) Mrs. Ples, hominid fossil (born c. 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago) Raymond Rahme,...
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  • Congress) and Dr Yusuf Dadoo (Transvaal Indian Congress). April 18 – Mrs. Ples is discovered near Sterkfontein. May 4 – The Natal Indian Organisation...
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  • a co-founder of the famous adult Au. africanus skull Sts 5, known as Mrs. Ples), had found a bone tool at Sterkfontein he believed to be used by Au....
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  • in another of the largest man-made non-nuclear explosions in history. 'Mrs. Ples', an Australopithecus africanus skull, is discovered in the Sterkfontein...
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  • International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded. April 18 – "Mrs. Ples" (STS 5), the most complete skull of an Australopithecus africanus specimen...
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  • afarensis 3.2 mya Hadar A partial skeleton including cranial fragments. Mrs. Ples Sts 5 Ditsong National Museum of Natural History Australopithecus africanus...
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  • S.; Bond, Patrick (2014). South Africa-- the Present as History: From Mrs Ples to Mandela & Marikana. James Currey. p. 197. ISBN 9781431410668. Burbach...
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    southern African ape-man Australopithecus africanus (the Taung Child, Mrs. Ples) and either Homo habilis or even a direct ancestor of Homo erectus (Turkana...
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    famous joke, "... what would have happened if [the A. africanus specimen] Mrs. Ples had met Dear Boy one dark night." At the time of discovery, there was...
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  • in Southern Africa (2011) South Africa – The Present as History: From Mrs. Ples to Mandela AND Marikana (2014) A Flawed Freedom: Rethinking Southern African...
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  • of this species, is published by Sillen & Balter (2018). The skull of 'Mrs. Ples' (Sts 5 specimen of Australopithecus africanus) is interpreted as a skull...
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  • the same year he collaborated with Robert Broom, the co-discoverer of Mrs. Ples. In 1939 he collaborated with E.J. Wayland to produce "The Pleistocene...
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  • bowler 6 April – Robert Broom, the Scottish paleontologist who discovered Mrs Ples. (b. 1866) 23 May – Sefako Makgatho, the 2nd African National Congress...
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  • east of Jerusalem, in caves at Qumran, near the Dead Sea. 18 April: 'Mrs. Ples', an Australopithecus africanus skull, is discovered in the Sterkfontein...
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