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Tobias, Phillip V

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Personal name headingTobias, Phillip V.
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Variant(s)Tobias, P. V. (Phillip V.)
Tobias, Phillip Vallentine
Birth date1925-10-14
Death date2012-06-07
Place of birthDurban, South Africa
Place of deathJohannesburg, South Africa
AffiliationUniversity of Witwatersrand
Profession or occupationPaleoanthropologist
Found inThe African in the universities, 1951: name in 500 note (Phillip V. Tobias)
From apes to angels, c1990: t.p. (Phillip V. Tobias) p. xiii (Phillip Vallentine Tobias; b. in Durban, Natal, Oct.14, 1925)
Olduvai Gorge, 1951-61, 1965- : v. 4, pts. i-iv, t.p. (P.V. Tobias) p. xxxi (b. 1925)
SANB correspondence with author, Oct. 24, 1972 (full name: Tobias, Phillip Valentine; b. Oct. 14, 1925)
Los Angeles Times, June 7, 2012 (Phillip Tobias, renowned South African paleoanthropologist and expert on early man and hominids, died Thursday in Johannesburg after a long illness. He was 86.)
Wikipedia, June 7, 2012 (Phillip V. Tobias; Phillip Vallentine Tobias; b.14 October 1925; d. 07 June 2012; born in Durban, Natal; a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He is best known for his pioneering work at South Africa's famous hominid fossil sites, and is one of the world's leading authorities on the evolution of humankind)
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