page_title: Robert Broom
section_title: Publications
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Broom / Publications
caption_attribution_description: English: Transvaal Museum, Paul Kruger Street, Pretoria. Bust of Robert Broom and Mrs Ples This media shows a South African Protected Site with SAHRA file reference 9/2/258/0100.
context_page_description: Robert Broom FRS FRSE was a Scottish South African doctor and palaeontologist. He qualified as a medical practitioner in 1895 and received his DSc in 1905 from the University of Glasgow.
  From 1903 to 1910, he was professor of zoology and geology at Victoria College, Stellenbosch, South Africa, and subsequently he became keeper of vertebrate palaeontology at the South African Museum, Cape Town.
context_section_description: Among hundreds of articles contributed by him to scientific journals, the most important include:
  "Fossil Reptiles of South Africa" in Science in South Africa (1905)
  "Reptiles of Karroo Formation" in Geology of Cape Colony (1909)
  "Development and Morphology of the Marsupial Shoulder Girdle" in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1899)
  "Comparison of Permian Reptiles of North America with Those of South Africa" in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (1910)
  "Structure of Skull in Cynodont Reptiles" in Proceedings of the Zoölogical Society (1911).
  The South Africa Fossil Ape-Men, The Australopithecinae (1946).
  Books
  The origin of the human skeleton: an introduction to human osteology (1930)
  The mammal-like reptiles of South Africa and the origin of mammals (1932)
  The coming of man: was it accident or design? (1933)
  The South African fossil ape-man: the Australopithecinae (1946)
  Sterkfontein ape-man Plesianthropus (1949)
  Finding the missing link (1950)
caption: Bust of Robert Broom and Mrs. Ples
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